SOLID STATE DRIVES
Storage may not get the blood racing in the same way a CPU or graphics card does, but it’s an increasingly important component of any gaming system. With next-gen consoles looking to make the most of their PCIe SSDs, it seems reasonable their games will put a greater emphasis on storage. As it is, there’s a lot to be gained from moving up to speedy SSDs, from games loading quicker to day-to-day operations just not taking as long, and Windows booting almost instantly.
When we’ve looked at SSDs before, you’d find this list stuffed with SATA-based drives from top-to-bottom, with potentially only one or two PCIe SSDs at the high-priced end. It’s now increasingly hard to recommend the old school 2.5-inch SSDs, simply because there isn’t much of a pricing delta between the best NVMe SSDs and their SATA-based equivalents. When the cheapest 2.5-inch 1TB SATA SSD is only slightly less than the same capacity PCIe drive, and
