Posted by: DuraniumCowboy
« on: August 04, 2017, 09:31:00 AM »Quote
I know, and the latency is better too, but I was wondering if he went from HDD to NVMe or SATA SSD to NVMe. An SSD is plenty faster than HDD, but the game still got slow. I even tried it on a RAMdisk once (DDR3) and even that did not help
I had a middle grade SSD, a Crucial drive.
Another thing with SATA vs NVMe, is that SATA was designed for spinning disks, so NVMe is the first real standard designed to handle non sequential IO. My benchmarks show almost x5 IO performance over my old SSD. Of course, a lot of that likely gets bottle necked somewhere else, as you are at that point sucking out data faster than anything else can really handle. Still, I was wondering if the ability to parallel, small IO might make database IO better and thus improve turn times. Or then again, maybe its placebo effect