star citizen storage that is what this video is all about we've got hard drives solid state drives
gen 3 and 4 nvme raid everything testing to see is there any point getting more than just a standard
sata ssd let's get into it first up we've got the solid state drive the standard sata drive it's a
pretty generic one we've got a third generation pcie nvme drive and then also we've got a fourth
gen version and we're going to just load them into the same system into the same server i've got
another computer which is already in the server so they will go the same one immediately after
each other and they've recorded these results we've also got crystal mark uh results is kind
of a benchmarking thing for storage just to show you in theory there is a difference between these
drives partic quite a large difference really but will there be one in actually loading into
the game i've looked also at performance i've done a lot ten runs at least of each of these in
uh louisville and just given an average and as you see here there's no difference in performance once
you're in game and i have to more than that as well just you know the other areas there's just
there isn't just no difference in plots so really we're looking at loading time so here are actual
loading times and you'll see they're basically all the same there's no difference and and this is as
scientific as we can get into the same server same number of entities all sorts of things going on
there's no real difference next up we're doing a hard drive as well as well as raid which is
using two of the gen four pcie drives together to get the maximum speed and as you see from the
crystal disk mark results again the raid result in theory absolutely obliterates everything else
and obviously the hard drive is very very slow and that will play out uh but the low
times here they've all been sped up but once we actually get into the game the raid result is
slightly quicker four seconds quicker than the uh gen 3 drive and then the subtle one
is a couple of seconds lower kind of a difference not much of one but then the poor old hard drive
we're just waiting and waiting and waiting and this is all has been sped up significantly uh
but man i i was bored out my brains we we finally get in game at five minutes fifty but that isn't
the full story we're in game but then only this small portion of laurel has actually loaded in and
we end up waiting an incredibly long time for the elevator and the rest of the city to actually load
and yeah it's just it's just not playable at all 12 minutes 19 before actually it loads in
and then we can play here's the uh four of those ones again shown against each other the
hard drive the bottom right hand corner is the one to watch it's just complete stuttery mess
it it is unplayable and i did a poll uh just before making this video to see what people
were using and a couple of people are using a hard drive and i just don't know how i don't
know how they're doing it i guess if you start the cities maybe it's not so bad but man it is
terrific and this is my my yearly warning do not use a hard drive so what's the way for this well
effectively nothing really has changed from what we've done in the past i've tested this before
and just proven that hard drives are a complete note and we've seen that again today complete
no go don't do this on a hard drive but really past that there's no real difference between
just a satter ssd and then fancier n.2 pcie three and four no real difference there there's a small
difference maybe in load times when you talk about raid but the amount of money that you're doubling
up the drives to get that speed for maybe four seconds of loading time you can work out whether
that's worth doing i would say probably not so there are applications where faster storage
makes sense but it's kind of generally been accepted for a while now that
gaming just isn't one of them and obviously there's things like direct storage coming
maybe at some point but we're not there yet for anything like that and uh there's just no real
point getting more than a standard such a sata ssd so there we go we'll call out this for this one if
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