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What's the fastest storage in your PC?

What's the fastest storage in your PC?

  • NVMe SSD

    Votes: 11,494 55.6%
  • SATA SSD

    Votes: 7,899 38.2%
  • HDD

    Votes: 1,105 5.3%
  • HDD RAID

    Votes: 165 0.8%

  • Total voters
    20,663
  • Poll closed .
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Processor Intel Core i9 9900k @ 5.1GHZ all core load (8c 16t)
Motherboard MSI MEG Z390 ACE
Cooling Corsair H100i v2 240mm
Memory 32GB Corsair 3200mhz C16 (2x16GB)
Video Card(s) Powercolor RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate (XTXH) @ 2.6ghz core, 2.1ghz mem
Storage 256GB WD Black NVME drive, 4TB across various SSDs/NVMEs, 4TB HDD
Display(s) Asus 32" PG32QUX (4k 144hz mini-LED backlit IPS with freesync & gsync & 1400 nit HDR)
Case Corsair 760T
Power Supply Corsair HX850i
Mouse Logitech G502 Lightspeed on powerplay mousemat
Keyboard Logitech G910
VR HMD Wireless Vive Pro & Valve knuckles
Software Windows 10 Pro
Nvme as my boot drive and for my most used games, SSDs for my other games, and a 4tb HDD for media and large games that I swap to/from SSDs if I feel like playing them again (the 60GB+ games that would take an age to re-download).

Saying that I wouldn't have an nvme drive if I hadn't been given one free with my motherboard - I find SSDs more than fast enough for games, and only have some on the nvme as it could be making a small difference (not that I'd notice tbh).
 
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Location
Croatistan
System Name 1.21 gigawatts!
Processor Intel Core i7 6700K
Motherboard MSI Z170A Krait Gaming 3X
Cooling Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Slim with Arctic MX-4
Memory 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 MHz
Video Card(s) Palit GTX 1080 Game Rock
Storage Mushkin Triactor 240GB + Toshiba X300 4TB + Team L3 EVO 480GB
Display(s) Philips 237E7QDSB/00 23" FHD AH-IPS
Case Aerocool Aero-1000 white + 4 Arctic F12 PWM Rev.2 fans
Audio Device(s) Onboard Audio Boost 3 with Nahimic Audio Enhancer
Power Supply FSP Hydro G 650W
Mouse Cougar 700M eSports white
Keyboard E-Blue Cobra II
Software Windows 8.1 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores Cinebench R15: 948 (stock) / 1044 (4,7 GHz) FarCry 5 1080p Ultra: min 100, avg 116, max 133 FPS
SATA SSD's on all three systems, Mushkin Triactor in main PC being the fastest of them. Both PC's have additional 7200 RPM HDD's, none of them in RAID, while laptop has only an SSD.
My fastest external storage is 480 GB SATA SSD - prior to that being in my main PC as second SSD.
 
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