The Impact Of HDD/SSD Performance On Linux Gaming

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 21 November 2017 at 10:04 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 27 Comments.

First up is looking at the Ubuntu boot time on each of these storage devices...

To no surprise, the Optane 900P SSD was indeed the fastest. But its performance was just one second faster than the Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD, something you likely wouldn't really notice... But both of these NVMe SSDs were several seconds (~6) faster than a traditional SATA 3.0 SSD. All three of these solid-state drives are much faster than the tested hard drive. For desktop systems, SSDs are really quite lovely and cannot imagine using an HDD in any meaningful manner as the main disk on a desktop/laptop.

The kernel portion of the boot process was the same for the SSDs, but a second longer with the HDD.

It's the user-space/desktop components on Ubuntu 17.10 accounting for most of the boot time.

But let's see what these HDD/SSDs yield for Linux gaming.


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