Should You Buy a Gen 5 M.2 SSD? It’s a question I see a lot, so in this video, the next in our "Is It Worth It?" upgrade series, we are going to find out. Our "Is It Worth It?" series is focused on showing you just how much you can expect to increase the performance of your system with a dropin upgrade. For this video our focus will be on super fast NVMe M.2 SSDs, with the current king of Gen 5 SSDs, the Crucial T705, compared against it’s slower Gen 4 cousin, the Crucial T500.

In addition to showing you benchmarks across 11 games at 3 different resolutions and game settings, I am also going to demystify key SSD features to help you buy the right drive. And if you stay to the end, I will share with you some pro tips on how to avoid killing your GPU performance when installing an M.2 SSD, something every PC gamer should know.

Remember, it's not rocket science, it's Lego … my goal is to help you make the right component choices and put them together the right way, every time.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Video Focus & Bonus Elements
00:56 SSD Key Features
01:22 What Is An M.2 SSD?
02:03 SATA vs PCIe Interfaces
02:35 What Is NVMe?
03:00 M.2 SATA vs M.2 NVMe
03:44 Which SSD Should You Buy?
04:09 How Should You Maintain Your SSD?
05:08 Test Setup & Methodology
06:16 Benchmarks
07:43 Pro Tip 1: Check SSD Speeds
08:32 Pro Tip 2: Check GPU Bandwidth
09:26 Performance Comparison
10:13 Is It Worth It?
11:21 WrapUp

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