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SSDs for gaming
Jarhead0331:
I went with a WD BLACK SN850 NVMe M.2 2280 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 3D NAND w/ Heatsink.
steve58:
Read Speed 7000 Megabytes Per Second :wow:
Are you sure that'll be fast enough?? :-\ >:D
Jarhead0331:
--- Quote from: steve58 on April 20, 2021, 08:09:26 AM ---Read Speed 7000 Megabytes Per Second :wow:
Are you sure that'll be fast enough?? :-\ >:D
--- End quote ---
I always say...go big or go home. It didn't make sense to get a drive that is half as capable just to save about $50+/-. I added a heat sink to the SSD to be safe too. All in, came to $449.
jamus34:
I put a WD black in my new family PC I built for the upstairs as the primary drive.
I’ll be completely honest though in real world use I do not think you’d see any noticeable difference between the mid grade and “the best”. Hell even a Sata SSD is probably “fast enough” if it is being used as a gaming drive.
I think a much bigger issue is if you are using TLC or greater SSD and you start getting near the capacity limit. From what I heard they big down horribly when they fill up vs SLC or MLC (really DLC I guess but I think for typical parlance they use MLC as the dual layer acronym.
Jarhead0331:
All I know is that for games like DCS and Star Citizen, the faster the SSD, the better. People definitely talk about noticing a tremendous difference. We'll see...
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