Don't waste money on SSD caching—here's why a full SSD upgrade matters for gaming
Rich Edmonds Mar 22, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
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When I moved from a hard drive to an SSD, almost everything felt instantly better. Boot times dropped, apps opened faster, and Windows felt much more responsive overall. But once you’re already using a SATA SSD, the improvements get much smaller. That includes things like WIndows boot times too, which often improve less dramatically than the benchmark numbers would suggest. A lot of everyday tasks like opening Chrome, launching Spotify, signing in to Windows, or browsing files are already fast enough that moving from SATA to NVMe often doesn’t feel dramatic. Part of the reason is that not ever
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