Should You Buy a Gen 5 M.2 SSD?
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Should You Buy a Gen 5 M.2 SSD? It’s a question I see a lot, so in this video, the next in our "Is It Worth It?" upgrade series, we are going to find out. Our "Is It Worth It?" series is focused on showing you just how much you can expect to increase the performance of your system with a drop-in upgrade. For this video our focus will be on super fast NVMe M.2 SSDs, with the current king of Gen 5 SSDs, the Crucial T705, compared against it’s slower Gen 4 cousin, the Crucial T500.
In addition to showing you benchmarks across 11 games at 3 different resolutions and game settings, I am also going to demystify key SSD features to help you buy the right drive. And if you stay to the end, I will share with you some pro tips on how to avoid killing your GPU performance when installing an M.2 SSD, something every PC gamer should know.
Remember, it's not rocket science, it's Lego … my goal is to help you make the right component choices and put them together the right way, every time.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Video Focus & Bonus Elements
00:56 - SSD Key Features
01:22 - What Is An M.2 SSD?
02:03 - SATA vs PCIe Interfaces
02:35 - What Is NVMe?
03:00 - M.2 SATA vs M.2 NVMe
03:44 - Which SSD Should You Buy?
04:09 - How Should You Maintain Your SSD?
05:08 - Test Setup & Methodology
06:16 - Benchmarks
07:43 - Pro Tip 1: Check SSD Speeds
08:32 - Pro Tip 2: Check GPU Bandwidth
09:26 - Performance Comparison
10:13 - Is It Worth It?
11:21 - Wrap-Up
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Such an insightful video. Thank you for all the value you provide that makes sense even to newbies like me.
Thanks for watching and the feedback!
in the SSD department the best performance gains were made from SATA3 600MB to Nvme pcie gen3 X4 4000MB, and only if pc games had direct storage enable a pce gen4 X4 will be enough.
I was surprised by the results so I added Forza Motorsport to my tests to see if Direct Storage would have an impact, but since both drives can use it there was no difference. Unfortunately there is a perception out there that since the read speeds double the performance in games will improve but it’s simply not true (other than a small benefit to load times).
Interesting, I didnt know the difference between the SATA and NVME, thanks for the lesson! It is a shame that there was no real performance boost but at least now I am more aware that I should save money on my drives and put it towards something else. Normally I just buy as much storage as possible and don't really think about speed (hence why I am yet to upgrade to an SSD for my other non-C drives) 😅Was there any significant differences in the boot times? Great video btw!
Thanks and yes, there was a 25% reduction in load time for games (it's on the 3DMark Storage Benchmark chart labeled Access Time) ... I was genuinely surprised by the results and regret buying all of the Gen 5 M.2 SSDs that I have.
@blackbirdpctech oh wow, I'm sure most people will not want to spend double the price for even 25% less load times. At least you did the test now rather than later, now you know not to fall for the marketing scams and this shows us viewers to be weary of these marketing tricks used by these companies to make a quick bag!
I already purchased a bunch of Gen 5 SSD’s, so it’s too late for me but at least I can help the broader community save some money 😉
@@blackbirdpctech our saviour 🙌🏼
You said FOMO in a tech review. Legend!
That was the only reason I could think of to buy a gen 5 ssd given these results … and I purchased a bunch of them 😉
@@blackbirdpctech LOL!!!
Yep ... wish I had done this testing before buying.
@@blackbirdpctech Well, it could have been worse. You could have said FML instead of FOMO.
Ha ha … that would have been more appropriate with the last video 😉
Thanks the explanation, I think I'll stick to my Crucial P3 Plus SSD choice for my new build for now! A bit of an off topic question, but given the Asus controversy, can you recommend a non Asus motherboard for a Ryzen 7 3800X3D?
Good choice … do you mean 5800X3D or 7800X3D?
@@blackbirdpctech my bad, missed the typo there, I mean the 7800 my apologies.
No problem ... I really like the motherboard that I use in my test bench, it's the Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master (link is in the description to this video). MSI also has some great boards ... depends on how much you are looking to spend.
@@blackbirdpctech I should have specified, this will be a small form factor mitx build so my choices there would be the Gigabyte A620I AX, the Aorus Ultra or MSI's MPG B650I Edge WiFi from the looks of things. Sadly my budget is a bit too low for the Aorus Ultra at a max of £250 for the mobo.
Of those options I would get the MSI board … they seem to be really good with bios updates lately and I generally like the look of their boards.
Not with Intel's current offerings itx Intel 14th gen can't run Gen 5 PCIe and M.2 at same time.
It can run Gen 5 PCIe and an M.2 SSD at the same time but I think what you mean is that it can’t run the GPU at full bandwidth while running a Gen 5 SSD … I cover this in the video.
@@blackbirdpctech yeah I'm wondering when Gen 5 GPUs drop how's it'd react if it's drop to PCIe Gen 4 x8 then Gen 5 x4 it'll be interesting to see
Agreed, at the moment the performance impact is relatively small but that may change. Intel needs to get their new platform out beforehand to make sure they are positioned well to avoid bandwidth issues.
gen 5 drives are like what ssd originally where to the regular 7200rpm drives ahead of there time and it took developers a while to get full use of those drives 7000 read is plenty and write at 6000 is plenty. maybe when the ps6 comes out gen 5 drives will be worth it. once sony and microsoft get there heads out of there rear end and start to push there tech like what sony did for ratchet and clank thus far is a start but cant help feeling the ssd in consoles arent being fully tapped since pc version says on ssd is required which i say to sony and developers which one ?. so far newer games don't seem to be pushing that boundary as hard yet. the issue i have with tests for load times is great but texture pop in is less for nvme at least from what ive observed in hogwarts legacy. will have to test with 4.0 and see if loading into different zones is more seamless. ( castle seems to be split into 4 areas.
I didn’t expect to see a huge difference but I did expect to see something … I was a little surprised with the results … and I still can’t explain the COD MW3 result. I think you are correct wrt game developers not leveraging the technology … which is why I added Forza Motorsport because it uses DirectStorage … but it had no impact on the results because the Gen 4 drive also used it.
@@blackbirdpctech as long as there developing for ps4 and older consoles that used standard drives. transition is going to be slow its improving with adopting it granted developers may leverage it more in long run once they have tapped everything else out i believe it could be that the game engine doesn't have the support built in for anything faster then the ps5 and xbox one ssd. i think what you may see more is less texture pop in that just isn't shown in the data. This is my own personal view of where i think developers are focusing on is in the mid market gpus like a 3060 12gb. A thing to try would be using a older 3500/3000 drive on cod mw3 vs m.2 4. and see if it preforms more poorly. if you look at iw game engine it may give you some insight. wikipedia has a good list of its features. i get the feeling the cod mw3 was in development before the ps5 and xbox one which may also explain its behaviour kind of like they hobbled it in at the end lol. other thing to consider both games where probly developed around 2017. which would be nvme 1.3 speed.
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Absolute bullshit you get higher FPS with a. gen5 NVME.
Absolute bullshit🤣🤣🤣
I was genuinely surprised by the results too which is why testing is valuable, it provides evidence to make a sound assessment versus using emotion. Just because you think something should be a particular way doesn't mean it is. My data is accurate, so please feel free to provide data to support your thoughts that you expressed so eloquently 😉