The best SSD for gaming is what your PC deserves. Not only will it keep your machine ticking along nicely, but it’ll ensure that your load times are as low as they can be. We’re still waiting on Microsoft DirectStorage (opens in new tab) to really take advantage of these drives, but in the meantime, you can enjoy super speedy file transfers in Windows, and rest assured that your storage isn’t holding you back.
There’s no denying how fast current SSDs are, especially when compared to old spinning hard drives. The same with SATA drives and PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Games that used to take minutes to boot years ago like Skyrim and GTA 5, load in a matter of seconds. Once you experience this, you’ll never go back to HDDs, ever. And the future only looks better and better on this front, with the soon-to-be-released Forspoken taking just a second to load (opens in new tab).
Every SSD here has gone through our intensive benchmarking suite: A combination of real-world game loading tests and…