Does a Faster SSD Matter for Gamers?? - $h!t Manufacturers Say

In this episode, the

manufacturers

say that we are going to show one way or another if we have already reached the point where a gamer or video editor simply will not be able to distinguish between a slow SSD and a fast one, the title. There is some truth to this video when we move from hard drives to SSDs, there was a period where the most notable upgrade you could do on an older system was a storage upgrade, but like CPU RAM or anything else , there is a point of seriously diminished performances and, honestly, I don't agree with

manufacturers

telling consumers that they need to upgrade their system because our new product generates 4,000 megabytes per second instead of 3,000.

Wow, what was that editor? Can you back that up for a second? Yes Yes. one from there expands that surprise, if you look very closely, you can see our sponsor, instantly see your current and past network activity, detect malware and block misbehaving apps on your PC or Android device with glassware, use the code from linus offer to get 25 off on The link below, both from the manufacturers and my media colleagues, has been found to suggest that

gamers

or content creators, such as video editors, could benefit in some way of the super fast pcie gen 4 SSDs that are making their way onto the market and, I love fast computers.

As much as anyone else, but when it comes down to it I feel a little like the kid who finally screams that the emperor's new clothes are a lie and that he's just naked because it's been so long since an SSD update surprised me. In addition to the super-fast benchmark numbers, to see if I'm the only one, we've created a fun little side-by-side test here. These three systems are almost identical. They all have Ryzen 9 3900x RTX processors. 2070 and 32 gigs of ddr4 memory, but one of them has a standard sata ssd, another has a latest generation nvme ssd that performs around 1500 megabytes per second and finally we have a pcie gen 4 ssd destroying our lines at a speed of 4950 megabytes per second, it's worth noting that the latter did require a motherboard upgrade to give us PCIe 4 support, but we've adjusted the performance parameters to ensure it

does

n't have another advantage, so let's start by asking our test subjects where are you expecting to notice the difference between the systems, the only difference I would expect is loading the games initially or as a map changing maps, but in actual gameplay I don't really expect anything in Adobe Premiere.

I really think the bottleneck will actually be Software I don't think you can tell the difference in games or most applications but in something that is very heavy like large files maybe like video editing or transfer , you may be able to feel it a little. Also, my expectation regarding the game's loading time is that unless I'm running the game side by side, the difference in loading time will be so small that I would have a hard time remembering which one is actually which, anyway. 600 megabytes per second at nine. times that speed we'll see, I'll probably be able to tell the difference in the load times and just accessing the system, start with this system number one.

The point of this is just to figure it out, well, you know, it's obvious yeah? We wanted to know which one is

faster

. We would use reference points. Yes, that's fast because there are often problems during charging. Oh wow, I haven't played this game in a while. 14 15 16 16 seconds 16 seconds for Mirage now That's something we don't allow people to do, it's just copy files from one folder to another on the disk because yes, there will be a big difference there, but is that really representative of the use diary or is it gaming and video editing? Not bad, surely better than playing off the grid.

I really can't imagine this getting much

faster

. It feels noticeably faster than I expected and I expect it to be pretty fast, so okay, good system number two. I really think counting is kind of like benchmarking and nine three eleven six one is okay it's a little bit slower yeah this isn't as responsive the other time I was able to drag it everything was immediate it seemed like there was a bit of a delay when it was charging, it stops counting. do it by feeling, yes I won't be able to tell the difference between them unless my count was pretty consistent, but you won't know if your count was consistent, no, I'm just going to assume and then I'm going to make my guesses based on that count and then I'll know whether it was consistent or not based on the results and whether I was right or wrong, okay, yeah, I don't actually find this much worse than it felt.

It took a little longer to get going. Are we at a point of diminishing returns? Oh, come on, that's the question we're asking. System two is definitely slower overall. I was surprised to find that in each game it generally took only another second another two seconds to load not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it definitely shows when you look at the details okay system three system three let's go okay this one loaded pretty quickly too but I have to check the first one again, very, very choppy, just trying to play this at full resolution, slower, slower, there's a slower one, okay, let's see, I'm not high, I might be high, okay, so I just loaded up Doom and that was pretty slow too, you know, there's all the marketing, yeah, about two, three, and four, yeah, and it's like, wait a second, where's that point of diminishing returns?

I suspect we're over it. PC3 is definitely slower than the other two, as the last 25 in Doom took a lot longer than it did in the other stations in the premiere. I saw the loading bar on this one. I don't even remember seeing the loading bars on the others. System 3 felt like a mixed bag, it was snappy in places but felt a bit. less responsive than others, that said, at some points it was like the fastest system, but other things loaded slower, so I'm a little confused about this one. I was pretty sure about the first two, but the third one is launching.

I noticed that system number three was a little slower. Doom got stuck at the 75 percent load mark a little longer than the other systems, but once the premiere was there and I managed full resin playback. he just died, he was really a stutterer, wait, no, you can't compare them head to head, you can go back, jeez, didn't you tell me that's not a drag race, I mean, it is, no, you can't, uh, it is a blind taste test. It's not a drag race it's very different concepts very different oh no I'm high I take back everything I said you have to declare it right take it take your chance I think this is sata nvme gen four are you ready to declare your answers?

I think it's okay, I can definitely say that the second one is sata. Okay, it felt across the board like the slowest. Okay, I have a harder time distinguishing between these two. This one felt slower than this one. This one felt consistently the fastest, so my immediate assumption would be that this is gen 4 and that's the nvme um, but maybe it's backwards and maybe gen 4 is so new that it's not consistent for sure, that's the sata. I'm pretty sure generation 3 is number two. Generation 4 is number one okay this is the fastest but only because lttstore.com that's what makes it fat don't worry I'm just kidding I'll tell you the real answers yes we'll have packs of stickers, you know, lttstore.com anyway.

Okay, I want to know the answer too, so I'll stick around. I'm not going to try it. Well, you said this was nvme not sata sata, that's wrong, that's nvme no um, you said this was and amy. that's gen four okay whatever im crazy that's nvme gen 3 yeah okay yeah you're right you're one for one that's pcie gen 4 no it's not possible and that it's satan, really, this was pcie gen 4. that was gen 4. okay, okay, this was pcie gen 3. really, my god, aren't you too? I'm not surprised that I was wrong, honestly I'm disappointed that I was wrong, yes, so when I used the first system I had no reference point and maybe it felt so fast and then I started comparing the others and I could feel the longer pause, so yeah, I don't know, I'm speechless, do you think you would have done it? any hope of noticing the difference between them if you weren't sitting in front of all three at once not even a small chance nor the slightest chance at all what's interesting to me is that for one man all the ones I took the test and chose the sata system as the fastest, so what that tells me is that the differences we perceive once you're running an ssd will largely come down to psychological issues, like maybe just looking at this one.

First, that makes a bigger difference. Colin actually wrote a conclusion for this, so here it is. The results show that there is a noticeable difference between SATA and NVME drives, which was expected, but blah blah blah blah, I actually did it. I didn't necessarily think that was going to be the case. I really wish I could have stayed blind so I could have taken on the challenge myself, but I didn't expect anyone to be able to tell the difference now, that being said, I don't. To say that there is no reason to consider a high quality SSD, there is higher quality flash that will be rated for more programming run cycles giving it greater longevity, there are firmware and controller quality that can affect the behavior of the drive when it is close to its maximum capacity and things like there is a dram cache, which is absolutely necessary, a dramless ssd will actually work as a hard drive in many situations and then of course there are applications beyond the typical gaming or video editing and that's where I think a lot of the problem comes in. is convincing people that for gaming or simple video editing you need this high performance storage because the hard truth is that even 8k red images max out at 280 megabytes per second which is comfortably within from the scope of what sata can handle talking. of limits there is no limit to how bad my segways can be.

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