NVMe vs SSD vs HDD
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What it means
Three storage speeds, slow to fast: a spinning hard drive (HDD), a regular solid-state drive (SSD), and an NVMe drive that plugs straight into the fast lane. NVMe is several times quicker than a SATA SSD, which is many times quicker than a hard drive.
More detail
For gaming this mostly affects load times and texture streaming, not your FPS — a game on NVMe loads faster and hitches less when it's pulling new areas off disk. Modern engines that use DirectStorage lean on fast drives even more. A hard drive is fine for storage but a rough place to run a 2024-era game from.
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