Faster Storage Matters - $h!t Manufacturers Say

[ColinLTT]

 

 

Does faster storage really make that big of a difference? Could you even tell between a SATA, NVME, and a Gen4 NVME Drive? To find out we put our staff up to a blind test to see if they can!

 

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[GDRRiley]

what is this color grade? someone forget  put on the wrong one at the start?

Seems overexposed

[unijab]

> had a ending already wrote up...

 

 

assuming

[SupaKomputa]

When the seek time is next to nothing, it should feel the same.

[mariushm]

13 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

what is this color grade? someone forget  put on the wrong one at the start?

Seems overexposed

Yeah, too bright. Several videos lately were too bright.

No point complaining or commenting, as the videos were filmed weeks ago so even if someone reads this and acts on it, it would be seen a month or two from now.

[GDRRiley]

4 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Yeah, too bright. Several videos lately were too bright.

No point complaining or commenting, as the videos were filmed weeks ago so even if someone reads this and acts on it, it would be seen a month or two from now.

there is a point, they shoot red or canon c200s they can easily do some grading in post to fix it. floatplane will get it next week it may take us closer to a month.

 

Its a simple little issue that should be addressed.

[baconian]

Did you guys clear the RAM between takes?

[SenKa]

Doesn't shock me, tbh. The big benefit to NVME is size and cable management. The ability to just not run SATA data cables if you dont absolutely NEED storage greater than ~4TB is a godsend for everybody. Especially so for SFF freaks.

[poochyena]

I'd like to see if installing games is faster, and how much faster.

[ColinLTT]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

Yeah, too bright. Several videos lately were too bright.

No point complaining or commenting, as the videos were filmed weeks ago so even if someone reads this and acts on it, it would be seen a month or two from now.

We read and circle back a ton of information downstream - never feel like we ignore what our fans say! 

[Razor512]

Hopefully Samsung will avoid price gouging for the 980 pro. The 3.5GB/s reads of the 970 pro is really inadequate for many general tasks.

[Tristerin]

The only difference I notice with NVMe vs all of my SATA SSDs (Samsung, Patriot, Team Group, etc) is loading Windows 10 is faster by approx. 2 seconds and that could be well within margin of error (17 seconds average vs 19 seconds average to point I pushed the on button to being able to start loading up multiple applications).  Other than that, zero difference.  I do like the form factor a lot of M.2 that is for sure though.

[RyomaSJibenG]

m.2 is less wire so yea that's the difference for me

[PiGHamM3R]

Results weren't a shocker for me either. Once all the game's resources gets loaded into RAM, the system shouldn't be touching the drive much. 

(Also, during the Micro Center outtro, I couldn't help but notice some breathing & mouse clicking, or am I going bat-shit insane?)

[CadetSparklez]

At 2:18 in the video you can see the 2nd system (which is supposed to be the fastest and most said was the slowest) has single channel memory!

here  --->

[Delicious Cake]

Pretty sure both der8auer & tech deals have videos which measured game and application loading times between SATA, 3.0 & 4.0 drives.

IIRC, the average SATA vs 4.0 difference was somewhere between 0-1s, with a few outliers bordering on 2s. So yeah, practically identical. I do agree that the two fewer cables to deal with is a valid point in favour of NVMe vs SATA, albeit mostly a one-off convenience.

 

The recent threadripper reviews basically identify what bottlenecks loading time after SSDs are involved: IPC and low-thread clock speed of the CPU, as well as the software itself.

[TheEpicDuck]

But thats dual channel

[nick name]

3 minutes ago, TheEpicDuck said:

But thats dual channel

Maybe he means the PC behind it?  Though that PC looks like it may only have two RAM slots.  

[manikyath]

they mentioned they swapped the motherboard for pcie gen4, maybe the board just has different layout on the dimms (or is only a 2-slot board)?

[The_russian]

2 minutes ago, TheEpicDuck said:

 

But thats dual channel

 

The PC in the foreground is, the one in the background isn’t.

[TheEpicDuck]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

they mentioned they swapped the motherboard for pcie gen4, maybe the board just has different layout on the dimms (or is only a 2-slot board)?

yeah looks like a smaller mobo

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, The_russian said:

The PC in the foreground is, the one in the background isn’t.

see this:

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

they mentioned they swapped the motherboard for pcie gen4, maybe the board just has different layout on the dimms (or is only a 2-slot board)?

 

[Tristerin]

Its pretty clear how close that AIO block is to those DIMMS/24pin power cable - there aren't 4 available 

 

(EDIT - its dual channel)

[Pickles von Brine]

The on in the background is an ITX system and has 2 dimm slots. It is in dual channel config. 

[greenmax]

3 hours ago, Roanan said:

Had you had any old techs

They are prejudice against older people, and females and perhaps even minorities though I havent had a look at their staff, majority of employees