Storage Guides
Practical explanations designed to help you understand, troubleshoot and safely improve a gaming PC.
NVMe vs SATA SSD for gamingNVMe offers much higher storage throughput than SATA, but the difference in average game FPS is usually much smaller than the difference in loading and file-transfer performance.Does an SSD increase FPS?Moving from a hard drive to an SSD can greatly improve loading and asset streaming, but it does not normally create the same average-FPS gain as a CPU or GPU upgrade.How much storage does a gaming PC need?Large modern games can consume substantial space, so choose capacity around the number of games you keep installed and leave room for updates.