Posted December 20, 2020
Strykaar: Sorry to burst your bubble, but this has nothing to do with only initial load. If you run a windows system your 32gb ram will not help you.
You whole system will get an insane speed boost by using a ssd.
I just switched from my Sata SSD to an NVME SSD two weeks ago and thought "well, this cant be such a boost" and boy was I wrong... even that upgrade feels insane regarding the whole system.
Coming AAA Games will demand SSDs as a bare minimum. Even blizzard tried with the latest wow expansion to bring a SSD as minimum requirement, but made a turn short before release.
ast486: You are wrong. You whole system will get an insane speed boost by using a ssd.
I just switched from my Sata SSD to an NVME SSD two weeks ago and thought "well, this cant be such a boost" and boy was I wrong... even that upgrade feels insane regarding the whole system.
Coming AAA Games will demand SSDs as a bare minimum. Even blizzard tried with the latest wow expansion to bring a SSD as minimum requirement, but made a turn short before release.
As I said, I have an ssd and it worked fine. (SATA btw)
But the ONLY difference was in the initial load.
Streaming games may benefit from an SSD, but if the game preloads the data like most games do, then it doesn't make any significant different.
It's like 2 seconds more to load a big game when preloading.
Remember, Cyberpunk 2077 demanded an SSD as a minimum, and I can easily play it from external storage with no gripes. What does that tell you about whether or not games actually maximize the read speeds. (For reference, this laptop only has NVME M.2 slots so yes, I have played from the SSD, but it isn't this major performance difference people claim it is.)
Post edited December 20, 2020 by Merranvo