Let's work our way through the drives we'll be testing because we have 14 different options on hand. The storage setup sees the system running off an M.2 drive in the second slot, with our games for testing running on a separate drive in the primary M.2 slot, which has direct lanes to the CPU. We have included PCIe 4.0 drives in today's storage suite, so our testbed consists of a Ryzen 9 3900XT running on top of MSI's X570 Tomahawk, 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory and a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (because Steve is hoarding all the RTX 30 GPUs) built inside a Corsair case. Loading screens are the primary thing impacted by storage performance in games, everyone wants to get in and play games immediately, so we'll be testing that across a selection of different titles. We'll be loading up a variety of games, and timing how long it takes to get into a playable level from the main screen. Do you need a PCIe drive? Do you need something with a DRAM cache? Are certain memory technologies worse than others? Part of this answer is obvious, SSDs are faster than hard drives, so we want to dial down a bit and see what sort of SSD is required. Some of the questions we plan to answer today include: what sort of storage device do you need to play today's games? Specifically, what sort of drive provides the best loading times, so you're not sitting around and waiting ages to get into gaming. We'll be able to look back on this tests to see how things have changed. Up until now, most games have been built with hard drives in mind, but as we move into a new generation of game consoles featuring super fast PCIe SSDs, the storage requirements for gaming may change in the coming years. Since we tested the first batch of PCIe 4.0 SSDs about a year ago, we've been wanting to run more tests. Today we're revisiting storage performance with an emphasis on gaming.
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