[SOLVED] upgrading to a M.2 and have questions !

[ominous11]

Hey everyone,

So my sata SSD died last night that was running just my OS ! which I'm not totally sad since its boxing day However I have a few questions about M.2:


1) I only game on my PC so I was wondering would Gen 4 make noticeable difference over Gen 3 for gaming with a m.2 ( Samsung 980s )

2) I like two have two separate SSD's, one for games/apps and one just for my OS. Would the Gen 3 or Gen 4 ( question above ) benefit me more to have it as a dedicated OS SSD or would I benefit better using it for games ? I currently have the Samsung 850 Evo


I'm running
window 10 normal 64bit
evga 3080 ftw3 ulra
360mm AIO be quiet
aorus x570 master
32gigs corsair dom
1 SSD 850 500gig SSD

Thanks in advanced !!

 

[USAFRet]

In a game system, PCIe 3.0 vs PCIe 4.0 makes zero difference.
Even SATA III vs NVMe brings not nearly as much difference as you might think.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3AMz-xZ2VM

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoRKQy-UO4

 

[ominous11]

wow ok i had no clue ! thanks for the videos !

 

[USAFRet]

wow ok i had no clue ! thanks for the videos !

The jump from HDD to SSD is/was huge.
Between different flavors of SSD, not so much.

The prime benefit of the solid state drives is the near zero access time for new data.
All of them, even the lowly SATA III SSD, do that.