NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe vs. SATA SSD vs. SATA SSHD vs. SATA HDD Game Loading Times

sata ssd : fast&cheap

Ахаха м2 просто дорогой мусор 😂

This is why I spent $600 on an 8TB SATA SSD!

Usless video tbh you didnt test heavy games which depends on ssd . Like rust or battlefield or gta

Why I bought 7000 mb/s m2🥲

So... you could pay double the price of a sata ssd to get an m2 and save like 0-5 seconds on loading screens.

human eye can't see past 560mb/s

few sec people ffs

time is money

You have no brain : ).... . M2 on 16x PCI adapter with SSD Micron Power...and I piss on that shit.... .

sata ssd almost no difference to nvme

can you try dark souls or elden ring?

cpu bottleneck

Hyper-Expensive M.2 buyers arguing about the 17 milliseconds they saved loading the game at just twice the price of a cheaper one.

is a fps difference betwen hdd and ssd?

Pensé que la diferencia entre un ssd y un nvme sería más grande, no vale la pena pagar más por uno

My m.2 nvme still load watch dog 2 for 40 sec !! 😢😢

We all know GTA5 is the one that takes forever to load no matter the drive.

2-3 HDD in RAID0 will replace SSD in this case.

this system has a massive I/O problem. If your M.2 drive is "about as fast" as your SATA (!) SSD you're bottlenecked by something. Most likely the CPU or even the mainboard. M.2 drives are several times faster, on average - but only if your system has no real bottlenecks. Get a new computer, my dude. You need real CPU power for M.2 - a tiny quadcore from 2011 simply wont do.

Modded fallout 4: What loading time?

SATA SSD wins in price/performance ratio.

These games don't use the direct storage yet. You need to test games with this feature. Everything else makes little sense.

Want to know something cool about Fallout 4? The load time is limited by the framerate, which is capped at 60 because the physics are also tied to it. There's a mod that improves load times by up to 500%, and literally all it does is raise the frame cap to 350 during loading screens.

Козалось бы м2 мощнее сата 3 ссд намного а разница в играх минимальна

what is sshd

Fallout 4, only 8 secs? What kind of Witchcraft is that?

Just a fair point to make here. A SSHD will only be faster for data you regularly load. So installing and running a game a few times is going to be as slow as on a standard HDD. But after several loads the drives controller starts to load the files on the small cache it has. Normally you'll see your OS here as it's loaded every time you boot. If the game is small enough and used often enough load times will nearly match a SATA SSD. I have a laptop with a SSHD and some of the games I play load almost instantly. While larger games I rarely play take forever (as it's a 4200 RPM drive).

how come the standard is almost as quick as the (10x??) faster m.2?

I am totally okay with slow loading screens guys. This is a war, this is just marketing. They are just giving us more reasons to buy and lose money. I'll just stick with my SSD (Since Windows 10 breaks every HDD I had lol)

SSHD are really bad, i would never use one again, the failure rate is really high for the ssd side also and then its slower than a potato

so, why is M2 not much faster, what to do?

Today you can Buy Nvme for more ore less the Same price as a SATA ssd with 3000-3500mb/s. And you dont need calbes

ok, now Forza Horizon 5, And Microsoft Flight Simulator ( new york airport. )

Нет смысла переплачивать за м2

So basically an nvme pcie 3.0 is pretty much all you need considering its not really that expensive. pcie 4.0/5.0 nvme are pretty useless

Ради 0,5-1,5 сек переплачивать.

its so sad to see, thats theres basically no difference, between a 500mb read sata ssd and a 3500mb read pcie m2.

Wow , 15 year of tech progress in order to see 30sec less of loading time!

It seems like something is blocking real potential of NVMe PCIe 4.0. Any particular reason?

NVME is faster than a spin-drive?!?! wwow... Nobody could ever have figured that one out.
...now what difference does DDR speeds have on loading times?

Going to be really interesting seeing how the PS5 is going to revolutionize game loading. Hopefully soon loading screens will be a thing of the past.

My hdd has been working flawlessly for 10 years. I bought an ssd, it lasted for half a year... However, this is also a consideration.

I still have 2 HDD Quantum Fireball, and I have no issues.

For you wondering why SATA SSD is the similar to nvme SSD:
Is because it’s transferring data from storage to physical memory, then the game will transfer from physical memory (RAM) to GPU memory. It probably does so in smaller chunks (could be sequential, could be random) but it’s not optimized for either. So what you’re experiencing is probably random transfers that the only thing you’ll see from a boost a a drive that’s big on random transfers. I’m going to see if an optane drive will be faster than the NAND flash

SSHD's get TOO TOO TOO HOT, temps wise.

Fantastic real world analysis, thanks for the work!

All my games go on a dedicated 4TB SATA SSD. My OS and productivity software are on NVME. Media goes on an HDD.

M.2 being faster is just marketing BS

The processor could do its processing functions as fast as the hard drive allows it to do them, that's why a good drive is important, remember that processes are files that have to be read and written to the hard drive.