Is SSD speed really important in video game development?

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RionRedhand2020-07-25 07:07:40

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RionRedhand, 2020-07-25 07:07:40

Now with a friend we are choosing a new disk in m.2 format for 500GB for the system + UE4 + game projects. I heard a lot about the Samsung EVO 860, so I immediately began to recommend it. A friend decided to get tired and pick up a more powerful drive, and he looks very strongly towards the A-Data XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro. In this case, a friend thinks it's important to get a faster SSD, which will help a lot when building/archiving the project. I think that he will not notice a significant difference, and this is more like a pursuit of numbers.
What's the question.
In this situation, which SSD is best for gamedev? If I'm wrong, and there is a significant difference between the performance of different SSDs in this area, then how to choose the right one (so that there is both speed and reliability)?

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alekseyHunter, 2020-07-25
@RionRedhand

A friend decided to get tired and pick up a more powerful drive, and he looks very strongly towards the A-Data XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro.

Let him look at the tests on 3dnews.
Enough 860EVO. Archiving / assembly - depends on the processor more than on the ssd.
The difference in starting an SSD/NVMe project is 1 second. And you will not notice the difference between 2 Sata SSDs.

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maaGames, 2020-07-25
@maaGames

Any ssd will do. The difference will be between the models, of course, but not significant. The difference isn't worth the extra money.
And you don’t need to look at the maximum numbers, look at the recording of random small data in a multi-stream.
Linear speed is important when editing video (provided that the processor, gpu and memory have time to cope with the incoming amount of data), while compiling a bunch of small files are written and saved. Even if there is a 20% difference between the slowest ssd and the fastest nvme (usually the difference will be much smaller). Then 12 minutes will be archived on one, and 10 minutes on the second. And the price difference is vast.

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evgeniy_lm, 2020-07-25
@evgeniy_lm

It may very well be that these SSDs are removed from the same conveyor. Only Samsung is quality and reliability, so the parameters are slightly underestimated, A-Data is all that remains after Samsung.
There is an interesting history and personal life. I have Samsung 2200 lithium batteries, I bought a flashlight, and there are two A-Data 4400, but very similar. Measured capacity. In real life, Samsung has about 2500, and A-Data did not even reach 2000.
Otherwise I agree with maaGames