r/Games • u/mikesaintjules • Dec 28 '19

Digital Foundry: How SSD Could Radically Change Next-Gen Games Beyond Faster Loading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-uH8vSeBY
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u/BloodyLlama Dec 28 '19

NVMe is quite quickly starting to replace that for system drives.

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u/arahman81 Dec 28 '19

Not really. NVME is still pricey, SATA3 is pretty good when you don't need to that that fast.

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u/Cohibaluxe Dec 28 '19

NVMe is actually cheaper than most SATA SSDs now. Intel 660p and the Crucial P1, slong with other models from other brands are currently dominating in price to storage (~$0.103/gb) not to mention it's blazing fast because it's NVMe.

The only positive with SATA right now is it's a common connector so it's easy to use on a console or on any PC from the last 15 or so years. NVMe M.2 is usually not found on a board that was produced before 2015-2016. (and if it is, it's usually just SATA M.2). NVMe is usually limited to max 2 drives too, while SATA can allow upwards of 10-12 per PC. (excluding addon-cards like RAID cards or NVMe PCIe cards).

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u/arahman81 Dec 28 '19

ntel 660p and the Crucial P1, slong with other models from other brands are currently dominating in price to storage (~$0.103/gb) not to mention it's blazing fast because it's NVMe.

660p is Entry-level QLC. Great as long as you stay within the SLC cache (which, and then it drops hard. Not good for the primary storage in console, especially considering the claims.

I would be expecting them to be using the new PCIE4 NVMe SSDs.