Red Falcon
[H]ard DCOTM December 2023
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For gaming, agreed.I hear ya. I'm still on 2.5" SATA SSDs and have zero regrets about NOT having any PCIe-based NVMe drives, based on real-world OS and game load times comparisons.
It just doesn't make sense *for me* to spend 2-3x the price/capacity to get a NVMe in the same capacity of a 2.5" SATA when the only advantage I'll actually see about is 0-5 seconds load times difference with my day-to-day usage.
Maybe when PCIe 5.0 drives emerge...
*shrug*
For major applications like video editing, databases, multiple VMs, large data set manipulation, etc, NVME (with a mid-tier or above SSD) makes a world of difference over SATA-III.