NVMe vs. SATA vs. HDD

[BoraMurdar]

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To test and visualize how storage performance impacts the user experience in real world scenarios we have recorded how quickly our Core i7-6700K test system completes various tasks using Samsung’s new 960 Evo 500GB SSD. Those findings will be compared with results from the Crucial MX300, an affordable TLC-based SATA SSD as well as a WD Red Pro 4TB mechanical hard drive.

We are putting away synthetic benchmarks such as CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD Benchmark in favor of real world scenarios. This is not meant to be an in-depth analysis (for that we recommend reading our full written reviews) but we have picked a few general use case scenarios that showcase the tangible difference in performance, for example: measuring Windows 10 boot time, how long it takes to load a game (Call of Duty, Civilization 6) and then continue to measure the time until you are in-game with the first mission or level loaded, file compression and decompression, and so on.

Results are pretty interesting and in this case, are enhanced by not just looking at them in a graph. Hope you enjoy the video Steve has put together for you.

 

[tim one]

Thanks for sharing Bora

For sure the SSD provides excellent performance, but unfortunately, most of the medium-level PC and notebook is equipped with a mechanical HDD to contain costs.

 

[frogboy]

Thanks for sharing Bora

For sure the SSD provides excellent performance, but unfortunately, most of the medium-level PC and notebook is equipped with a mechanical HDD to contain costs.

Yes i am stuck with the poor mans HDD but hope to get a SSD one day soon. In truth i have been saying that a while now but one day.

 

[SHvFl]

Wish i had an nvme drive but stuck on a normal ssd for now.
@frogboy Get one as soon as possible. The difference is night and day.

 

[shmu26]

desktop user here, SSD for OS and programs + a couple VMs, and HDD for storage

 

[Exterminator]

SSD & HDD on MSI Laptop
SSD & HDD on Desktop
On all other laptops and desktops HDD only

 

[Vasudev]

1 m.2 PCIe SSD (NVMe) + 1 m.2 SATA SSD and HDD on AW 15.
HDD only on Lenovo G500.

 

[BoraMurdar]

SSD & HDD on MSI Laptop

Dominator model?

 

[SHvFl]

Dominator model?

Almost all the new models that are getting out by MSI have an M.2 port that does pcie/nvme drives i believe. I was looking at a relative average cost laptop MSI GL62 6QD and it had those.

 

[LASER_oneXM]

..have 3 laptops here at home (no desktop PC). Two of them are gaming laptops (MSI) and they have SSDs: M.2 and mSATA.
My 3rd laptop (an average model, 5 years old, i5 and GT540M) is too old (i guess) for an SSD... . ....the speed of my old
laptop (and also of any other desktop PC/laptop without a SSD) is absolutely terrible ..... I'm using the internal HDDs
for games (steam/EA/UBI-soft).