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*Best Sata SSD for Gaming 2023*
(Best SSD for gaming on older systems with no M.2 Slot)

*Best PCIE 3.0 NVME SSD for Gaming 2023*
(Best budget gaming SSD and best Price to Performance SSD)

*Best SSD for PS5*

*Best SSD for Xbox Series X / S*

*Pro-Sumer M.2 NVME PCIE 3.0 SSD for Gaming 2023*
(Best for gaming SSD w/ DRAM)

*Pro-Sumer M.2 NVME PCIE 4.0 SSD for Gaming 2023*
(Best SSD for Gaming w DRAM)

SSDs Explained from Sata to PCIE 3.0 to PCIE 4.0 to PCIE 5.0. Looking for the best gaming PC Build 2023? Getting the Best SSD for Gaming 2023 is harder than you think. What's the difference between the Best SATA SSD, the Best NVME SSD, and between an NVME PCIE Gen 3 SSD and PCIE Gen 4 SSD? Will your gaming pc build even support PCIE Gen 4? Does your best gaming SSD need to have a DRAM Cache, SLC Cache, or Host Memory Buffer (HMB)? What performance differences are there in gaming between a Hard Drive, the best SATA SSD for gaming, and the best M.2 NVME SSD for gaming in 2023?

In this video, we review everything you need to know about buying the best SSD for gaming 2023, answer the big questions about SSD gaming performance, and make specific product recommendations to ensure you end up buying the best gaming SSD. Unless you have unlimited money to spend on your PC, money wasted on buying an SSD that isn't the best gaming SSD will end up costing you FPS. Instead, invest that money in a better CPU, GPU, or faster RAM to get better gaming performance. And you could end up with not enough SSD for gaming if you undersize your drive by overspending on super fast storage. Remember, Call of Duty Warzone recommends 175 GB of storage space, so drive size is also part of gaming performance as it is hard to play games you can't load on your SSD! This will help you build the best gaming computer 2023.

If you are looking for the best Gaming PC Build 2023 or even just the best PC Build 2023, this video will cover SSDs Explained, and teach you how to build the best gaming pc in 2023. We recommend best gaming SSD for any budget or use case, including the Best Sata SSD 2023, Best M.2 NVME SSD for gaming 2023, and make some recommendations for best SSD 2023 for any use case.

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0:00 Best Gaming SSD 2023 Overview
0:39 Cheap Windows Keys!
1:13 Storage Types Explained: HDD, SATA, NVME
1:42 Why HDD & SATA SSD Obsolete
2:12 Best SSD for PS5 & Xbox Series X & S
2:25 NVME SSD Socket Sizes
3:02 NVME SSDs Explained - PCIE 3 vs 4 vs 5
4:03 NVME Compatibility
4:20 SSD CPU & Motherboard Considerations
5:07 TLC vs QLC - Does it Matter for Gaming?
5:41 Do you need DRAM / SLC Cache or HMB for Gaming?
6:43 How Much Storage Do You Need for Gaming?
7:33 Issues with Drive Cloning SATA to NVME
7:51 SSD Gaming Performance - SATA vs Gen 3 vs Gen 4
8:43 Game Loading Time Differences - SATA vs Gen 3 vs Gen 4
9:20 Price to Performance - Best Gaming SSD for the Money
9:58 Why PCIE 5.0 Isn't For Gaming
10:33 Best Gaming SSD Recommendations
10:43 Best SATA SSDs for Gaming 2023
11:46 M.2 Adapter for Older Systems
12:19 ARGB M.2 Drive Covers
12:45 Best NVME SSDs for Gaming 2023 - Gen 3
15:03 Best SSD for Xbox Series X & S
15:38 Best SSD for PS5
16:32 Pro-Sumer Level Gen 3 NVME SSD
17:25 Pro-Sumer Level Gen 4 NVME SSD
19:09 How to Build A Gaming PC 2023

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*NOTE: When discussing how much storage, text on screen reads "4GB" but should be "4TB".*
Please 👍LIKE👍 the video if you liked it! What Drive are you rocking right now? Which one will you be getting and why? Tell your story in a new comment below!

[aaldrich]

nvme storage is really one of the best things to happen to PC building. No cables for power or data. Small and when hidden under a cover, just adds to a very clean build. I love them.

[ShnozzleShabizzle]

Nice timing, this is my next gaming purchase. Running games off a spinny drive is not all that great.

[mycrush]

Man i missed out on buying at this prices. . .prices right now 2024 is 50% increased

[Phyxsius_]

Finally someone tells everything as it is. If you already have a good SATA SSD, there is no need to pay for NVME unless you can get it for very cheap. A normal user and gamer will hardly even notice the difference. Of course, NMVE is attractive because of the cleaner aesthetics of PC. I personally bought a Kingston NVME 1TB for 30 euros, which was a very good price, so let me say right away that the difference between SATA and SSD is very small (2 seconds boot and 1-2 seconds when opening games), nothing I couldn't live without

[nickbonfiglio]

Be careful with the Silicon Power A80. Not sure if you are familiar with the recent part swaps done by SP. It used to be a good drive but now comes with very cheap parts like the controller was switched, DRAM swap ect. I did a build with it recently and had to return it because of the constant corruptions of my files. That definitely could explain the massive price drop we've seen for the drive and why its so cheap now.

[-darkangelic-]

My twin grandsons recently ran out of storage space on the PCs I built for them over a year ago. Both had 1TB NVMe SSDs which cost around $100 apiece at the time. Imagine my surprise when I came across a PCIe 3x4 3000 MB/sec 2TB drive that cost only $69!I immediately got two of them to replace the old drives, clones the old systems with Macrium / Acronis, kids got immediate benefits and no difference in performance.
Now I’m thinking of getting a 4TB version for $170. 😂

[kelley]

One SSD I don't see mentioned much but has a good price is the Silicon Power UD90. It's a Gen 4 drive with good speeds and right now is only $45 for 1TB and only $90 for a 2TB.

[Alan-rtse]

The Silicon Power A55 will perform well at first, but after 2-3 months use, the write speed will drop dramatically. At first, read and write speeds were both around 400 MB/s, but within 3 months, all 4 of the SSDs I bought had all dropped their write speed to below 100 MB/s. The read speed did not drop. I tried reformatting them to see if their write speed would return to normal, but it did not. I've never had that happen with any other brand I've used. Jason, I really wish you would test these SSDs to see if they hold up over time, or if their write speed drops like the ones I was using.

[eskevarmkdrake]

Sorry for my English, it's not my native language and I'm translating as best I can.
Perhaps it would have been useful to make a summary table for both speed/price and "writing resistance"/price. Not all models on sale in general have decent values, while only some have very high values, hence also some price differences. Of the 1TB models the declared values are: Samsung 980 Pro has 600 TBW, Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1800 TBW (which makes it stand out above all the others), WD SN850X 600TBW, Crucial P5 Plus 600TBW, Silicon Power P34A80 800TBW, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 600TBW.

[TruckFan]

That “Houston, we have a problem” at 7:40. LOL! 😂

[richiereyn]

I agree that the typical home computer no longer requires traditional hard drives, but if you are like me and require a lot of storage that is quickly accessible, running traditional hard drives in a Raid or NAS is still the better way to go when it comes to the amount of storage and overall cost. Spinning discs will be with us for a long time yet.

[HAL--ovqu]

Second post, if you are a gamer running new triple A titles get the 2 TB drive! One TB fills up really fast, even if you just use your system for small games and watching online streams a 1tb drive will start to fill up to 400gb just from OS updates etc.

[djGLCKR]

The Teamgroup Cardea Zero Z440 (graphene or not), not to be confused with the DRAM-less Z44L, solid gen 4 option as well. ~5GB/s seq. reads, ~4GB/s seq. writes, 1GB DRAM cache for the 1TB version, Kioxia flash, 1800 TBW threshold, 5-year warranty, and it has been around the $53-55 range recently, instead of the $60+ from last year.

The other thing to consider is drive longevity. QLC is said to wear down faster than TLC, so it tends to be recommended as a mass storage drive rather than a boot drive (more reads than writes). Personally I'd still go with a drive equipped with DRAM cache as my boot drive, and grab a DRAM-less one for extra storage, especially for old SATA builds that can't accomodate an NVME due to lack of PCIE lanes.

Currently using a Crucial MX500 as a boot drive for an old system that I unfortunately bought right before the massive dip in SSD prices (from $70 back in January, down to $50 as of right now), but it pretty much gave extra life to a near-decade old system. I'll be upgrading to that Cardea Zero Z440 in the near future, though.

[eno]

I have 17.25tb of NVMe between all my systems and honestly the SN570 is my favorite bang for buck. I have 4tb of gen4 speed drives in my main rig but they give me nothing more than what my sn570’s give me for game loading. The sn570 is faster full of data than my older dram equipped gen3 drives like a sx8200.

Going forward only buy 2tb or bigger as m2 slots are limited. Boot drives of course can be smaller like 500gb. Sn770 is a worthy buy if not much more than a sn570. Both are extremely good value when using for game storage and not professional media use.

[domesticdingo]

I went with a 2TB crucial p5 plus since I found it on sale. SSDs admittedly are an area of weakness in my knowledge, but I felt pretty good about that one. I was mostly just stoked that I did a new build and didn't plug in a single sata cable. The future is here

[Nikioko]

My first SSD in a computer was a 128 GB OCZ Vertex III in the machine I built 12 years ago. I installed the OS on it and had additionally two 2 TB HDD (as they had the best value by that time) which I put into a RAID 0 array.

[redrock]

I've gone with 1TB & 2TB SN770. Middle of the road price but good performance, beating many of the expensive drives in some metrics. Also 5 year warranty from a good manufacturer.

[levigoldson]

This is a good and fairly comprehensive video from the market perspective and looking at options for different people.

Where I think you can do better is less focus on sustained sequential writes and reads, which I fully understand the manufacturers try to push down our throats, and instead focus on QD1 random access performance. This is what is going to matter for the vast majority of users when comparing drives.

[sezwo]

Black Friday prices were mostly the same as in this video presented 6 months earlier! I noticed that early in October most big online retailers raised their prices across the board for all drives and then for Black Friday advertised as deals select products with old pricing. I am talking about 500gb-2tb drives both NVME and SATA. I bought the Samsung EVO 870 SATA SSD 1tb for $59.00 minus $5.00 Black Friday coupon, total $54.00. Also bought a Crucial T500 newly released NVME drive, very competitively priced, likely the best deal of Black Friday, $64 for 1Tb with heatsink included. 2Tb was for $102 no heatsink. Generally speaking prices for common sized drives of premium brands did not budge much since the time of your recording. Thanks for the video, was very useful for price comparison. I hear from a lot of people that on most merchandise there weren't many real deals this year.