SSD drive upgrade vs performance on this game?

[katdog5]

I ran a performance test on my ancient OCZ Agility 3 SSD 120GB . (Performance test= 2227) 63 percentile.  been a while since I bought eh. Quick question for those in the know re ssd drives with this sim in VR.

 

 

Should I upgrade to a NVME SSD 950 256GB. (Performance test= 7563)  only $120 ....or does it not matter that much? Will I just loader faster, see some minimal gain,  or do you think I will def see some easily noticeable performance gain? $120 not terrible 

 

thanks in advance

Edited November 1, 2017 by katdog5

[dburne]

Load times mainly.

[ICDP]

To be honest any decent SSD is more than enough for gaming use.  Once the game is loaded the SSD has no more use and even a game uses a caching system it uses routines to ensure nothing needs to be read directly from a HD, but from system RAM instead.

 

You only see a benefit on your OS drive, or if you move a lot of data.

[katdog5]

Thanks.

[BeastyBaiter]

Agreed, I have a Samsung 960 Evo 500GB as my main drive. Passmark score on my system shows that drive at 15,550. It has no impact on FPS compared to a normal HDD or SSD. It does improve load times though as well as file transfer times. Read speed is about 6x that of a normal SATA SSD and write speed is about 4x as fast. So it does have its uses, but in game FPS isn't one of them.