Hey everyone 🙂Have you ever stored your games on (one or more) NVMe drives and used them this way? Probably not the best for 'static' PCs, but I think it could work for gamers who move around a lot.
I think an interesting video would be compare and contrast different USB drives in the same enclosure or using USB SSD vs USB Nvme just an idea. I have actually used a lot of USB drives and don't find the Nvme enclosures to be much if at all faster than SSD over USB. I also find the Samsung drives or faster drives in general will perform better over USB even though they can't reach their limits. The loss in performance is quite frustrating but I need to use USB since I use RPI4, RPI5 and a mini PC with limited storage. I also found the quality of the enclosures matter. I have had very different results with the same drives and better enclosures. I also have the opposite occur. I finally broke down and bought an Nvme HAT for the RP5 and it made a world of difference.
That's an interesting idea, thank you. Yes that could be interesting for sure - I agree that it seems like some types of drive are a LOT better than others.
The USB spec is what's holding you back. But this could work for mobile gamers or laptops which can't upgrade the internal storage. Based on your results, using a NVMe SSD gives you no better performance than a 2.5in SATA SSD.
I saturate the USB bus regularly. It's very reliable on the few machines I do this on. From my experience the memory controller on the poorly designed NVME is the issue... One of my party tricks actually is using a Seagate IronWolf NAS SATA drive over USB and obliterating the performance of the misguided that buy improper m.2 drives for their main system drives. These poorly designed drives are good if you have very few files that are very large in size. As soon as you start dealing with normal applications they basically stop working. I have a lot of experience with this phenomenon.
Good point, yes I agree, I think generally this is just a weak area especially for USBs. A SATA SSD would almost certainly work better true, especially since it would be more reliable than the variable results I had with my USB NVMe.
That's interesting @lemonsquareFPV. I actually have a few Seagate IronWolf NAS drives and they always work really well for me too - the fact that many have read and/or write speeds above 200 MB/s blows my mind.
Hey everyone 🙂Have you ever stored your games on (one or more) NVMe drives and used them this way? Probably not the best for 'static' PCs, but I think it could work for gamers who move around a lot.
I think an interesting video would be compare and contrast different USB drives in the same enclosure or using USB SSD vs USB Nvme just an idea. I have actually used a lot of USB drives and don't find the Nvme enclosures to be much if at all faster than SSD over USB. I also find the Samsung drives or faster drives in general will perform better over USB even though they can't reach their limits. The loss in performance is quite frustrating but I need to use USB since I use RPI4, RPI5 and a mini PC with limited storage. I also found the quality of the enclosures matter. I have had very different results with the same drives and better enclosures. I also have the opposite occur. I finally broke down and bought an Nvme HAT for the RP5 and it made a world of difference.
That's an interesting idea, thank you. Yes that could be interesting for sure - I agree that it seems like some types of drive are a LOT better than others.
The USB spec is what's holding you back. But this could work for mobile gamers or laptops which can't upgrade the internal storage. Based on your results, using a NVMe SSD gives you no better performance than a 2.5in SATA SSD.
I saturate the USB bus regularly. It's very reliable on the few machines I do this on.
From my experience the memory controller on the poorly designed NVME is the issue... One of my party tricks actually is using a Seagate IronWolf NAS SATA drive over USB and obliterating the performance of the misguided that buy improper m.2 drives for their main system drives.
These poorly designed drives are good if you have very few files that are very large in size. As soon as you start dealing with normal applications they basically stop working. I have a lot of experience with this phenomenon.
Good point, yes I agree, I think generally this is just a weak area especially for USBs. A SATA SSD would almost certainly work better true, especially since it would be more reliable than the variable results I had with my USB NVMe.
That's interesting @lemonsquareFPV. I actually have a few Seagate IronWolf NAS drives and they always work really well for me too - the fact that many have read and/or write speeds above 200 MB/s blows my mind.
Not really. Thunderbolt 4 and 5 are above 40gbps. So it is capable to transfer 5gb/s. So a gen4 ssd will get used a bunch