This is the best bang for buck PC upgrade... PERIOD! #gaming #pcbuilding

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[killertruth]

I remembered when I had paid $100 per TB NVMe SSD.

[bcraftr]

but most pcs don't utilize gen 5 m.2 its best to go for a gen 4 which is like half the price

[danielt]

Someone, please tell j2c that sequential speeds really don't matter and it's all about random read/writes

[ajpewding]

"waiting on you" heaven benchmark hahaha

[VolcanoPenguin]

We still have to tell people that a spinning disk drive is bad in 2024?

[Kevin-gfim]

This video feels like it should of been released in 2012.

[mozametweakin]

Thankfully I'm spoiled - I got into pc's late so my first had an nvme

[Keaton.]

IronWolf (SATA) writes at 360MBps and reads at 690MBps... and it's a 2 years old drive. lol

[ceuser]

HDD offer more storage for less money though and the fact that you don’t have to worry about the data stored in them. I can save and forget them. SSDs on the other hand are more expensive, with lower storage capacity when compared to HDDs and SSDs need to be run at intervals otherwise you’ll lose the data that you saved. If SSDs can compete with capacity and price then maybe yes, but for now, you still can’t eliminate the need for HDD especially for those who have big storage needs. Judging at the recent games which require a lot of storage space, we are at the point of demanding double digit storage space as a bare minimum for a gaming drive.

[general]

I think the best upgrade I usually do for my PC is the GPU. I usually upgrade every two to three generations, so it’s a fairly decent jump upwards when I do.

[tmsphere]

Moving from a trusty (and good) HDD to a relatively cheap SSD is probably the biggest upgrade any single component could have on a CPU.

[dale]

Keep your SSD and your HDD both, folks. SSD only really matters for OS and online games, where loading speed actually matters, unless you're willing to pay top dollar because you want absolutely everything on your SSD. I have a 1TB 3D NAND nvme that cost me around 100-140 dollars, and a 4TB HDD that cost me less than that. Now go look up the price of a 4TB nvme.

[Kapono]

I still think a Gen4 drive is plenty for gaming.

[ThatArtismo]

Direct Storage games about to make high sequential reads meaningful

[ThtsWhaSheSaid]

Can't believe I used to play all my games on a hdd for 4 years, but I didn't understand how storage drives worked. I assumed they were all the same speed so I never thought of buying an nvme ssd. Now that I tried one, I'll never use hard drives for games.

[dieiceNGC]

There used to be PCIE SSD that faster than M.2 NVME SSD in number. Yes, SSD that has PCIE connector and not M.2 NVME SSD with PCIE adapter. LBut turns out it perform only slightly better than M.2 NVME SSD in real test.

I think manufacturer prefer making only M.2 NVME SSD than also making PCIE SSD because M.2 NVME SSD can go in to laptop and desktop.

[colinmaharaj]

I like hard drives, and my new build will have hard drives, I do more programming and my files are less than 100k.
What is really weird is that there are no more hard drive cages in modern cases

[CrassSpektakel]

My first Harddrive was a ST225, 20MByte for 1200DM and it was so fast (200kByte/s) and big (20MByte = 50 Disks) I thought I would never need another Hard-Drive.

Hard Drives can be fast if you RAID them. In 2007 I had a Xeon Workstation (in fact I still own it but the drives all died and I replaced them with a single 500GByte SSD and a 1TByte iSCSI share) with 32GByte of memory, 8 cores, and a RAID5 of 5x500GByte - we just used the Windows RAID5 driver from the Server Edition on our workstation and it whooped 500MByte/s - the total amount of Cache of 5x32MByte did help a lot.

My first RAID btw was made from 5x1GByte, running Linux 1.something. At aroung 50MByte/s it was scarringly fast!

[michielvoetberg]

I switched maybe 2 years ago from a hard drive to a M.2 SSD.
Total game changer

[gstormcz]

SSD upgrade over HDD made my PC feel like 10x faster. No joke.
Nvme 3.0 drive made it even quickier.

But there are plenty of benchmarks that even on fastest nvme 5.0 load ming times of games don't improve noticeably.

I would recommend some best value Nvme you can get, whatever it is.

Just make sure its not nvme SATA, although those have same interface (insert directly to MB no cables), they have same 600MB/s transfer limit as standard SATA.