A quick browse over prices here, it looks like double speed = double price, I guess that is fair.
Personally I would buy a double sized "good enough" gen4 instead of a similar priced gen 5 with double speed.
I went from 1.5GB/s to 6GB/s on my game drive and did not really notice it at the time, maybe high capacity of memory is enough to keep the read/write traffic down.
A quick browse over prices here, it looks like double speed = double price, I guess that is fair.
Personally I would buy a double sized "good enough" gen4 instead of a similar priced gen 5 with double speed.
I went from 1.5GB/s to 6GB/s on my game drive and did not really notice it at the time, maybe high capacity of memory is enough to keep the read/write traffic down.
I dont need alot of space so i though getting a 1TB gen5 for my main drive and move sabrent gen4 to secondary slot but it seems its still not worth it.
A quick browse over prices here, it looks like double speed = double price, I guess that is fair.
Personally I would buy a double sized "good enough" gen4 instead of a similar priced gen 5 with double speed.
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It would seem in the world of NVMe drives, increased speed does not equal increased performance.
And by that i mean real world useable performance. Nobody is noticing the game performance increase of a £500 4TB gen 5 drive over a £250 4TB gen 4 drive
It would seem in the world of NVMe drives, increased speed does not equal increased performance.
And by that i mean real world useable performance. Nobody is noticing the game performance increase of a £500 4TB gen 5 drive over a £250 4TB gen 4 drive
I would like to see the comparsion in loading times in games that support direct storage like the Horizon FW.
I would like to see the comparsion in loading times in games that support direct storage like the Horizon FW.
Something like this but then for HFW.. 😉
Found 1 for the old game, but that's also with other nvme drives ofc. Skip to 1:57 (edit whoops) to see.
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It would seem in the world of NVMe drives, increased speed does not equal increased performance.
And by that i mean real world useable performance. Nobody is noticing the game performance increase of a £500 4TB gen 5 drive over a £250 4TB gen 4 drive
Yes that is what I am seeing i think.
Could be the random small files of game files that still is bad on drive speed.
HWMonitor showed a record of 1.4GB/s as the highest one time speed during game startups/loads, all other peaks was at 500MB/s.
Disk to disk file transfer with a single iso file is 4GB/s no problem.
Small game file transfer is easily down into the 0.5-1GB/s when copying a game folder.
For a really, really good test of storage media try compiling a large project like the Boost library. I do that kind of thing fairly often and the difference in storage speeds makes a much larger difference than CPU performance does. A large codebase that uses lots of pre-compiled headers would be a very good test since those files are in the hundreds of megabytes so there would be a good mix of large and small files accessed in an extremely random manner.
Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/corsair-mp700-pro-se-4-tb/16.html Nothing to be excited about. So far the technology has been very disappointing