M.2 NVME vs SSD vs SSHD vs HDD Game Loading Times 

Rust takes me legit 15 minutes to load and 15 seconds to die by a group of 15 dudes.

My game loads so slow that I've already mastered the game by just reading the tips & hints.

2:05 SSD appears to get the attention of players....

2:07 *SSD getting all the hate lol*

I just wasted 3 minutes watching loading screens 🙂

That one guy trying to hammer you during your experiment. xD

You should have written NVMe instead of M.2 because M.2 is just the form factor.

2:05 I guess that was the NVMe drive owner LMAO

2:02 - honestly I wouldn't have believed it if there wasn't that player, it's impossible in rust, being afk without shelter and no one trying to kill you

Legends say the HDD is still loading.

2:06 I had a good laugh, thanks mate

I am surprised to see the value of a regular SSD but the M.2 does come in clutch on some games where limited selections are a thing.

2:06 HI MOM IM ON RU-vid

2:06 this is Rust, where you cant even do benchmark quietly hahahaha

Very nice production value! Loved it!

perfect. just what i was looking for. thank you!

Hi there. Ideally what you should have done here, was run each loading time test on each device multiple times & taken the average. Reason being is that the SSHD utilises solid state caching, giving it much higher speed than the standard HDD. This caching only really comes into effect however, if data is being loaded to it, so it can then be re-read from the solid state cache, instead of from the spinning disc. Once the data is loaded onto the solid state cache & reloaded, it won't be far behind the SSD. Additionally, SSHDs tend to feature a learning tech that predicts what data to keep stored in the cache & what to flush. The more something is loaded into & read from the cache, the more likely the drive will learn to keep it in there for longer, making it load faster. I see HDD technology not being able to keep up for much longer, as price/capacity is its ONLY major selling point right now & even that is being eaten into by SSHDs having similar capacities for not much more cost & SSDs are gradually coming down in price, becoming more & more affordable too. Cheers.

Left a like just because the guy tried to beat you with a hammer mid test 😂😂😂😂

Great video! Right to the point, love the way you set it up. Thumbs up!

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2:06 "Can you PLEASE get out of the frame, we're shooting here!" :D

Thank you so much for adding Rust, it takes my pc like 10 minutes to load the game, I need an m.2

Great comparison!

Thank you for a good comparison video :))

Kingston V300 is impressive in the budget / mid range SSD space. I can handle waiting a second or two more for the cheaper price.

2:03 Yep, that's definitely Rust lol.

sweet ty also dope music

Thank you for this video. Super helpful.

Finally someone covering Rust. Its a pretty hard game to run idk why ppl dont do benchmarks on it more often.

The firecuda becomes faster when you load the same game a couple of times. I have both the 970 evo and the evo pro nvme, also firecuda and barracuda. The pro model reads almost twice as fast as the evo model, even if the spec says they should be close. 1800 read and 1700 write on the evo, 3500 and 2700 on the pro.

Love these tests. Keep up the good work.

Awesome Comparison Bro

M2 $$$$$ vs HD $$

Finally, a video that can clear all confusion about SSDs

wow!! good review!!

This must have cost a lot of work and I appreciate your effort. Really interesting video!

Typical Rust... 2:05

You just saved me 100+ euro! Thanks :)

2:06 lmao i love the fact that a random person just starts attacking you 😂

2:07 when you try to peacefully show people loading time comparisons but some random guy runs up to you and tries to kill you with a wooden hammer that does no damage LMAO.

Would be interesting to see what the Barracuda clocks in at when accelerated w/ an Optane module, particularly if compared to the Firecuda.

Bro. Rust on a HDD is death. Imagine your base getting raided and you needed 3+minutes to join the server XD

a way to identify what type of storage to buy. compatibility applies. nice vid

Good comparison

Well I can def say that these tests are what should be expected in general. But, Yeah upon reading the comments with all the variations of these storage types. There are a lot to really consider outside these test results. For example my HDD drive 7200 rpm load games decently. So, I'd say I'll stick to this one for the mean time until I have another budget to buy an SSD. (which is common combo still for 2019) and play around with that w/ just the OS and some games I have. Ill be going merry until prices go down and I can get a better deal.

Cool test

People who make videos like this are real heroes imo

Me: standing peacefully Other player: *come here boy!* 2:06

And i keep asking my friends in rust why loading in takes them so long.. never knew it was this much of a difference

Thank you very much, very good job, it was very clear. helped a lot.

NVME: Yes. HHD: You think u are faster than me?

So SSD would be best price/performance= best value?

I'd be curious to see how they compare in 1% and .1% low frame times due to reducing stutter and pop-in as new assets get loaded.

Did u have the Samsung magician software installled and accelerating the ssd? I guess not, but I’d be interested in what that does considering the improvements it reports

Thank you Man

One thing I would have added, was a defragmentation (and disk file optimization) for SSHD and HDD, because it can speed up a lot; for example in GTA V loads on a core i5 4690, 16gb ddr3, rx480 on a seagate barracuda 2tb, in around 45s, considering that I have bottlenecks on hardware, not storage.

Everyone: I hate loading screens. Everyone: Here to watch loading screens.

great video

very nice video. i’m going for the 860 Evo 1TB :)

"You cant buy time" SSD: Am I a joke to you? HDD: yessir

damn where you been all that time? first time heard that ssd faster then any hdd or shd or anything else, damn you make my life good

Can you do this, for editing? Or just give a text review on ssd m.2 vs sshd on editing softwares like premiere?

Thank you for this video.

Nice work there! Is the HDD partitioned %20 for optimal speeds? Is the NVMe controlled by AHCI and its firmware up to date? Finally, what's the capacity of the V300? Appreciate the help.

hi did you configure the m.2 mvme in the bios ???

Glad to see a Rust load comparison here.

Very helpfull video

I think what we can all agree on after watching this, is that game loading times are unacceptably long😂

Seeing that the M.2 and SSD was about the same speed, makes me think that the Samsung drivers for the M.2 was probably not installed. Installing the driver does improve performance.

Depends how fragmented wore the installations as well

Would've been interesting to see the performance of a RAM disk as well.

very relaxing music. nice

I would have liked repeat loads of the same environments after the first load. SSHD are supposed to be semi-smart and cache frequently used files into the haster access memory. I'm more curious as to how that works for large games than i am for the first load in an open world title.

Came for results stayed for the music.

It is true that 99% of the software simply isn't optimized to benefit from the massive throughput of the M.2 drives (>6x read/write compared to a SATA SSD). So much so that in rare cases I've observed my "970 Evo Plus" M.2 to even be fractionally slower at load times than my 860 Evo SATA SSD. Windows Boot up and shutdown times though feel faster on an M.2.

I wonder if computers in 30 years will be able to load GTA5 in less than 20 seconds... I know what you are thinking, it's almost impossible, but i believe we can manage to

Good vidéo thx

Question: For fast loading times does the game have to be downloaded in the m.2 or there is some way to download the game in a different drive but use the m.2 to load it?

We mostly learn that some loading times are too long in general. XD

I've been wondering is getting an SSD would make loading into Rust faster, thx dude!

I wish that you would redo this with Gen4 NVMe's. I'd like to see what PCIe 3.0 vs. PCIe 4.0 does -- to see if it is going to make that big of a difference.

Has anybody seen what's in the case supporting the HDD when it's timed running?

2:09 does he know hammers dont do damage?

M.2 970 evo, I load Overwatch maps in literally 3 seconds. Always get first hero pick, came in quite hand when Ashe was released.

would u get a crucial mx500 m.2 or crucial p1 ? i feel that besides the speeds, its not necessary to to get an nvme m.2

Thx I needed to know how my rust will be with a ssd

Everybody: makes No difference regarding image quality This video: thumbnail x4

Cool video! Have you done a test using HHD with MS storage spaces? I'm running that right now, it seemed to help, but not sure by how much. Thanks!

TL:DW 1. NVME isnt much faster than SATA SSD's for game loading (save it for your OS) 2. SSHD had very similar load times to the HDD, which means it wasnt given a chance to cache data and actually USE the SSD part of it, making its test data useless.

HDD and SSHD: Go make yourself a Coffee or Tea while waiting it done

the comparison is with the OS in the same HDD/SSD as the video games? or windows is in one storage unit and the videogames in another?

I’m getting a WD blue s550 for my budget gamin pc

GTA V loads from my 970 evo in 13 seconds

Thanks for the video! Im getting a used firecuda sshd for a batocera build. Since the sshd learns what processes are frequently used I hope most of the lightweight OS can be optimized on the 8gb of solid state storage. I paid $71 for a i3 10100 based slim office pc, and about $60 for two 2tb 3.5" drives. One drive is the firecuda, and the other I hope to fence to recover $20-$30. After that I hope to find (probably a rx 6400) a single slot gpu for upscaling.

Great, thanks

NVME is a waste of money for game storage. A decent SSD is the max you should go for

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thank you man!

ok, i looked at the thumbnail, and i thought you were saying storage helps with the quality!

Well i prefer hdd it gives us time to drink and pee😂😂😂