Notice it is 5 times the speed of the best HDD’s I have! PCI Express to M.2 NVMe This is interesting - the perf of a relatively new HDD hasn’t improved a lot. HDD - 8 years oldĬame with my XPS17 laptop (had dual ones of this drive) HDD - 5 years oldĤTB Western Digital inside a fast desktop. Good article on Amazon about disks HDD - 10 years oldįrom around the 2010 era of an Apple MacBook Pro. M.2 - wafer thin using a speed up technique called NVMe.

SATA Usually 2.5 inch same size as Laptop HDD.

Laptops use 2.5” and full size are 3.5”.

Reviewers on Amazon commonly use this tool HDD / SSD / M.2 NVMe This got me curious as to performance differences between modern day drives and older drives.ĬrystalDiskInfo is good for the information, and CrystalDiskMark - scroll down page gives a good idea of benchmark speed. It took all day to install Windows 10 and updates (compared to an hour or so I’d expect) I needed to reinstall Win10 on my spare laptop that I’d stolen the SSD out of and had a 10 year old hard disk sitting around.

Sshd vs hdd benchmark