The Shocking Truth about PCIE 5.0 vs Gen 4 vs 3 SSDs! 😱

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Lexar NM620 Gen 3 SSD:

Patriot P400 Gen 4 SSD:

Adata Legend 970 Gen 5 SSD:

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Samsung 990 Pro Gen 4 SSD:

Firecuda 530 SSD:

Kingston KC3000 SSD:

Lexar NM790 SSD:

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1:02 Gen 5 SSDs are HERE!
1:03 A HUGE MOAN!
2:00 Test Methodology
2:33 Gen 5 Loads
3:23 DirectStorage
2:33 Gen 5 Cont
6:24 Gen 5 SSD Problems
7:16 Gen 4
8:25 Gen 3
8:34 SATA
9:42 HARD DRIVES
10:33 Side By Side Load Speeds
11:37 Are they worth it?

[drakata]

respect for calling them out. SSD having a cable and a loud fan is a huge deal breaker for me

[GingerRuss]

My buddy upgraded his system 2 months ago, told him Gen4 was the sweet spot and 32gb DDR5 ram (gaming and watching vids is all he does), he buys 64gb and

[MC-rxox]

Just upgraded my core i5 6400 pc from an hdd to a sata ssd and it made so much difference.
The reason I upgraded wasbecause I got restricted in valorant for loading in so slow that it tagged me as afk.

[rayeasom]

15 seconds to load a game of Civilization 6 and you call that slow. I remember playing the original game on my Amiga 500; it took 15 minutes to load a game.

[BIGBASSSAMA_]

Remember my words GEN 4 M.2'S IS THE SWEET SPOT

[dianaalyssa]

Depends on price also, gen4s are getting decently cheap and some gen3s are a real steal price performance wise. I did have to reinstall Windows recently, I think Asus bloatware app got me on both my nvidia and amd rigs just ran the remover tool earlier today just in case it got included with my BIOS update &/ Windows installs somehow. I only have gen3 & 4 nvme slots also, hmm... interesting thoughts about it, really will depend on price and cooling.

[AuroraButterflyx]

I upgraded my 11-year-old laptop with Sata ssd and 8 GB RAM and that thing runs so smoothly and works wonders for browsering the web and using Word on it. I didn't even want to try it with the old hard drive when I found it 😅.

[Kapono]

People have really tried to find a good reason to get Gen 5 SSD but they really struggled

[captainshiner]

I'm stuck on PCIE 3.0 currently, but looks like I don't have anything to worry about for a while.

[frankytanky]

I am going with gen 4 because the price is decent now, but a reminder that a sata ssd gets like 90 percent at least of the performance of any nvme in gaming. You could buy some sata ssds for mass game storage for extremely cheap now and the lower heat might be worth it.

[teboho_]

Moving from HDD to any of the other ones is the huge upgrade. You'll wonder how you ever lived with a HDD😂

[johngonzalez]

You need to test more than the drive you tested. You need other Gen 5, Gen 4, & Gen 3 drives. One sample is not enough to validate the tests

[DavidHarry]

Massive thumbs up for your warning and criticism of the fan at the start of the video and an excellent review 👍 Cheers, Dave.

[Aurummorituri]

I feel this video was misleading with the Gen4 drive speeds. You used one of the oldest and slowest “first gen” Gen4 drives with an old memory controller. Current Gen4 drives are almost 50% faster in reads and writes. No one with any knowledge would be putting one of those old drives in a new system.

[HirXeBomb]

I bought myself gen 4 m.2 and probably will not upgrade to a gen 5 or higher for the next 5 years. 😅

[RTSchofield]

I currently run:

500gb M.2 gen 4
2tb m.2 gen 4
5 x 2tb ssd
1 x 10tb hdd

Honestly cannot tell the difference between m.2 and ssd. The hdd is noticeably slower but for general storage it's fine. Games are slower to load (obviously) but stuttering isn't too much of an issue on older titles.

[brothatwasepic]

Remember my words: 5.25" floppy disk is the sweet spot ❤

[MrKillswitch]

Will say there is some advantages of using sata SSDs is the low cost as there are some crazy good 2TB going for less than $50 on the used market that are primarily from data centers with some insane TBW ratings. Gotten one drive a couple weeks ago that is rated for 12, 300 TBW that was barely used for $75.

[rondlh]

This is NOT a comparison of PCIE4 vs 5, it's a comparison of some PCIE4 drives to a PCIE5 Adata M.2 SSD

[Hyperion]

Gen 5 is only good for those who move and edit large files (content creation/editing). For normal day to day work and even gaming, most processes are random reads and writes. Try benchmarking these drives for random reads and writes and gen3/gen4 and gen5 would almost have the same results. My MB is gen3 but I chose gen4 drives to saturate the bandwidth - best option so far especially that nvme drives are dirt cheap compared to SATA SSDs.