Would a 50MB/s difference in an SSD make a difference in boot times, or game loading times?

[Noirgheos]

I'm talking from 500MB/s to 550MB/s.

[jcw150]

The slightest of differences yes but like the difference between having your CPU clocked at 4.5 to 4.6 so it wouldn't matter.

[skimmilk5]

It's not like you're offloading 4K video footage, so no, the difference is negligible. 

[failblox]

It's not gonna be that noticeable in boot times and when loading games. Unless you're doing really large file transfers all the time, you won't see much of a benefit going from 500MB/s to 550MB/s.

[vanished]

The big reason SSDs are faster than HDD is that the random IO speeds go from like 0.5 - 1.5 MB/s up to like 20 MB/s.  That change in sustained speed is not going to be significant at all.

[Enderman]

no

 

you shouldnt buy an SSD based on its speeds (unless its really bad, like 200 or 300MBps)

you should buy based on reliability and write endurance

[EvilLemur]

Well if you are going to be transfering say 20 meg files then no difference will be spotted but if your transfering large say 100 gig files yes you will notice a difference about 30 seconds or so but in reality its not much, where that number really counts is if you transfer lots of smaller files. but 50MB/s isnt a hard hit. now if you said 550 or 200 then you would notice it instantly.

[Noirgheos]

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll hold off then. Wait until xmas to get one.

[SkilledRebuilds]

More than just speeds, keep an eye on the iops ratings.

[EvilLemur]

Also something to look at besides IOPS is the drive features, and if its been proven to keep up with the stated read and write speeds, a 500MB/s burst is one thing and will show the drive start to slow down after the burst, Another thing is the type of ssd SLC or MLC or even TLC, and what features it has and if your motherboard supports it. 

[vanished]

Also, never blindly believe the advertised speed - go look up actual benchmarks.  Sometimes they will vary greatly...

[ybriK]

I don't even bother looking at seq R/W. It feels like they're marketing terms like "Gaming" items, it's all about IOPS, Random 4K Q32 depth R/W for me when comparing storage solutions.

[vanished]

I don't even bother looking at seq R/W. It feels like they're marketing terms like "Gaming" items, it's all about IOPS, Random 4K Q32 depth R/W for me when comparing storage solutions.

Actually I think the regular 4K number is far more representative of what you'll get in real world usage.  Not many workloads will act like the Q32 test as far as I know.