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Hardware Unboxed looks at the Best SSD for Gaming: PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 vs SATA vs HDD Load Time Battle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COofLeqk_tM

Looks like there is not much of a difference between the various SSDs. As we'd expect mechanical hard drives are a lot slower.

SSD? pfft, my workstation is all NVMe

psypher wrote:SSD? pfft, my workstation is all NVMe

Those NVMe drives read speeds are an impressive 7 times faster then the SATA SSDs.

Unfortunately games aren't optimized for them, as you can see from the review's PCIe4 and 3 NVMe SSD drive results.

Hopefully the Playstation 5 load speeds will inspire the developers for PC games.

My tomb raider load times were cut by 2/3 going to NVMe drive.

Techspot has the webpage review of the Hardware Unboxed storage game loading tests: https://www.techspot.com/review/2116-st ... e-loading/

Like most people I prefer to scroll down to the charts rather then search for them in the video.