On the back of falling flash memory prices, SSDs have become significantly more affordable over the past few years. At the beginning of 2018, a 512GB Crucial MX500 drive cost around $140; now, the same drive costs $60. We’ve seen even more significant price drops for fast NVMe PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0 drives, making them a much better value for money option than ever before. Before we get into the actual drives that we recommend, let’s cover the basics: why are SSDs actually worth their higher cost per gigabyte than traditional hard disk drives?
There are quite a few good reasons, but almost all of them come down to speed. Using an SSD as your boot drive will make your computer faster to start, while installing programs to an SSD will mean they will start faster and be more responsive too. The most demanding tasks will see the biggest improvements, and nowhere is this true more than in games. Switching from a mechanical hard drive to a solid state drive will cut game load times dramatically and there are further gains to be made when switching from an entry-level SATA drive to a faster NVMe SSD.
Source – eurogamer.net
