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Does it really make that of a difference? Sure I use SSD's for a long time now but haven't seen that much of a speed improvement over HDD's in games. Even with a m.2, haven't seen any improvement.
However data transfer speed is another story !
Depends on the game you play. M.2 vs Sata SSD isn't a huge deal for game, but either of those vs HDD on a game with actual loading times is a brutal difference.
Yeah maybe I got so used to SSD's that I can't remember the leap between SSD's and HDD's.
An as you said the difference between M.2 isn't that much of a difference in game. There probably lies my bias.
Playing games was fine - it was loading things up that has sucked. I haven't gotten dota up on the SSD yet, but on the HDD it was real clunky and would half-load the landing page and sit there for ~10 seconds.
The biggest difference, though, is that firefox now opens immediately instead of taking ~10 seconds after clicking the icon
I always have a grin on my face when my laptop boots EndeavourOS in ~20 seconds.
Haven't seen that since DOS
I never timed it up precisely, but on my desktop with an MSI board, it sometimes feels like I’m waiting longer for the board to get past the UEFI into the bootloader than for the whole OS to load off my m.2…
I believe that is the case with m.2 across the board. POST takes forever, boot seems to be instant.
I love booting up servers. 95% of the boot process is spent on the ram check. 4% is spent on the actual bios things, and 1% is actually booting the OS.
Even on my home server (a desktop with 64 gigs of ram) the ram check takes longer than the OS.
I just remembered watching the RAM counter run up.. in KB..
..then typing in duke3d..
I was pretty sure I messed something up when I upgraded the RAM in my desktop from 16 to 64 gigs and it wouldn't output any signal for solid 10 seconds, lol. And the regular 5 second black screen on normal boots was still something I had to get used to coming from maybe a second with 16 GB
I haven't run an OS off a spinning disk for over a decade but I still remember how big the leap in general usability was when switching to SSD
Depends on how old the HDD is
The speed difference between my brand new 7200rpm 20TB HDD and a random ass sata SSD is still astounding. Sequentially the HDD is only half as slow. But booting an OS or loading files the HDD is maybe a 10th the speed. Small sequential files is where SSDs shine, especially when it comes to high end NVME drives. That’s why iops are always included in benchmarks.
Windows on an HDD takes like 1-2 minutes to boot. A sata SSD is closer to 30 seconds, and a high end NVME drive is like 10 seconds.