Hopefully, you’re not still packing a hard drive in 2022 (if you are, you really should upgrade to an NVMe SSD), but even if you’ve upgraded to a SATA drive you’re still doing your gaming PC a disservice. The latest PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs are capable of hitting far higher transfer speeds and that means Windows loads faster, games are that much zippier, and throwing files around is much smoother.
Platinum P41 2TB
SK HYNIX £225
The best all-round drive
1 SK Hynix is a major player in the memory space, giving it a bit of an edge when it comes to this, its newest PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. Not only is it sporting the company’s own 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash but its own ‘Aries’ controller too, so it has complete control over the final drive and has optimised it to offer knock-out performance.
You’re looking at peak read and write throughput of 6,890MB/s and 6,340MB/s respectively, and that’s in our own
