Are NVMe PCIe SSDs worth it compared to regular SATA SSDs?
I can get a Samsung 850 Evo 500GB for 150 Euros where I live compared to 220 Euros for a 960 Evo with the same capacity. The 960 is undoubtedly faster on paper/in benchmarks but I’m wondering whether I could see any difference when working with Unreal.
I’ve just set up an Unreal dev PC with the engine source code on a 2TB HDD. It takes over 9 mins for UE4Editor.exe to be up and running when launched from VS after a reboot (cold run). Subsequent runs are slightly faster (3 mins…) but this is still too long (Note: this is using a customized version of the engine)