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Which is Better for Gaming HDD or SSD | Crucial.com

Ever experience choppy gaming and long loading times? Using a Hard Drive at the heart of your gaming PC is really painful. SSDs are no longer as expensive pieces of hardware that they were once. If you want to enhance the gaming experience, make the shift to Solid State Device.

With several models and TB of space, saving a large amount of data while maintaining PC responsiveness is not a problem.  Using SSD as your boot drives significantly enhances your computer’s responsiveness, allowing fast booting and launching programs easy.

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While you can have all these features with a simple SATA SSD, a major enhanced PCIe interface greatly enhances performance. Some of the latest SSDs with PCIe 4.0 push processing rate to 15000Mb/s. Lately, Nvidia announced its GeForce30 is capable of loading compressed game data without using the CPU. The PCIe interface bandwidth allows loading game data directly from SSDs at a faster speed.

Samsung Evo 870

I’ve been a hardcore gamer, you can put your existing hard-drive to use by making a data library, and that’s what I did with the old one. Repurposing SSD as your primary hard drive allows better longevity and loads the file faster. SSDs read and write and fast boot-up speed improves the overall system performance.

In the race of fast-paced and high endurance SSDS, Samsung’s 870 Evo binds all the good SSD features. However, bring a SATA Samsung 870 Evo is limited by bandwidth, but read speed goes up to 560MB/s, whereas Write speed is 530MB/s.

Crucial MX 500 and P2

If you’ve been looking for reliability and some bang for the back? Crucial MX500 is the best budget SSD. Not just it pays for the money you spend, but it outperforms its competing SSDs in the same or slightly higher budget with better speed. Crucial P2 is faster for more speed due to its PCIe 3.0×4 interface that’s better than the SATA drives.

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