HDD vs SSD vs M.2 NVMe - God of War Ragnarok - SSD Required?

HDD vs SSD vs M.2 NVMe in God of War Ragnarök. The minimum requirements for God of War Ragnarök state that a SSD is required to play the game, so I thought I'd test that. Despite the longer loading times, the HDD run it pretty well.. 

HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch

SSD SATA: SAMSUNG 870 EVO SATA SSD 500GB 2.5”

M.2 NVMe: WD_BLACK 2TB SN770 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280

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Comparison / Evolution of Games

Benchmark / Best Settings RTX 3070

Benchmark / Best Settings GTX 1060

00:00 Loading Times
01:29 Boat - FPS/Performance
02:49 Combat - - FPS/Performance
03:25 After 1 hour of Gameplay on HDD
05:12 Cinematics

God of War Ragnarök SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel i5-4670k or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD RX 5500 XT (8GB) or Intel Arc A750
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 190 GB available space
Additional Notes: Windows version 2004 2020-05-27 19041. 6GB GPU is required

Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super or AMD RX 5700 or Intel Arc A770
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 190 GB available space
Additional Notes: Windows version 2004 2020-05-27 19041. 6GB GPU is required

PC Specs:
Case: MSI MPG GUNGNIR 110R
Motherboard: MSI MEG Z590 UNIFY
CPU: i5 11600kf
CPU Cooler: MSI MAG Core Liquid 240R V2
Memory RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz
GPU: EVGA RTX3070 XC3 ULTRA GAMING 8GB
PSU: Corsair RM850
Storage: -1TB Kingston KC3000 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe
-500GB SSD Samsung 870 EVO
-2TB HDD Seagate BarraCuda

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[apcetojako]

I play on HDD now i have no sttuter at all just little biw slow texgure loading cuz the game is so good optimized even for HDD

[SusilRamarao]

I think the gameplay FPS wont change between different drives... it depends upon what RAM we use it loads all the critical things on RAM and whatever you play is from the RAM

[AMD-jwvb]

Can you do more of these SSD required videos, it is quite helpful+ nobody cares to do a video about it.

Thanks for the info

[hank]

Lol thanks i knew there wont be any difference

[GamerSpielerGermany]

I used to play with an HDD and I don't care if I have 90 or 91 FPS because it's logged at 60 FPS for me and I don't use more than 1080P without ray tracing. I also don't care about loading times and whether textures load a little later. I used to fill my 1 TB HDD up to 50 GB with system and games and never noticed a difference.

[wanderingmind]

Running 4TB WD Purple Surveillance HDD (200MB/S) with no stutters and very good loading times on games.

[killermoon]

I'm playing on HDD, but high quality texures sometimes does not load instantly. When I enter new area or get new scene, I get low quality texures and have to wait for some seconds for higher textures to appear

I wonder if SSD have same issue.

[JoseLuisUbedaOrtiz]

Hello is posible the same video with stalker 2.

M2 vs ssd sata vs hdd.

Thanks a lot

[plugpulled]

Unlike other Sony titles God of War ragnarok on PS5 does not make use of the NVMe storage speed.

[ZyCv]

btw, i'm finish gow ragnarok + valhalla using hdd without any issues

[Faraz_Iran]

games i have found its hard and imposible playing on bests hdds and extreamly need a ssd is : alanwake 2 and street x racing i experienced

[amansaxena]

I think it's originally ps4 tiltle that's why able run good on older pc hardware as well, they just added better resolution and 60 fps for PS5

[thebigcj]

Really the size of the game is crazy 190GB, but how big will the Sony games of 2025 and 2026 be?

[petez_]

I saw the difference in forza horizon 5....Didnt check the fps but I m on a b550 mobo 5600g cpu and 4060....On HDD I had problems on loading the map so there is a huge read difference!

[MeyrickLagardo]

which sata ssd are u using to perform the experiment and are they all plugged in externally ??

[rubenight]

como imaginei ...na hora da jogatina nada muda...apenas as telas de carregamento que são alteradas

[davidcardenas]

No entiendo como hay gente que piensa que los juegos necesitan discos mas rápidos xD. Miren los procesos del computador mientras juegan y listo, El disco nunca va a estar a mas de un 20%. Incluso el procesador apenas se usa. Es pura tarjeta de video y ram.

[cerebrum]

what about external ssd ? is it the same as SATA ssd ?

[amy-]

i play the game on hdd but im planning to move it to ssd

[BLBAZ]

But why HDD hard drives still been making in industries ?