Will Sata3 be adequate enough for gaming 3-4 yrs from now?

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I like to play MMO's and the new and cutting edge type games. I would like to know, if I were to get the best of the best now (ex. Samsung 850 pro), will I be fine in 3-4 years from now. Anything under 20 second loading screens, is acceptable. The reason I ask is because I just bought a motherboard that doesnt have sata express or m.2.

I remember when I didn't know anything about what was good or not when building a PC. I ended up suffering trying to play Age of Conan and waiting 1-2 minutes for a zone to load, due to my inability to realize that a 40 dollar hdd was not a wise move. Took me a while to realize not everyone had the same problem.

So I come in seak of wisdom and enlightenment. Will Sata 3 be enough for four years? I don't want to make the same mistake twice.
 
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Sata express and m.2 are new stuff, it will take time until those become an standard for fast computing like SSDs did when they were released. Price/performance the 850 is not that of a big jump from the 840 EVO series, but if you were to go for a SSD, I think that is the best you can get by now. M.2 and SATA express will be the rich guy trendy now, but SATA 3 will still be good for years to come.
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Yes It will last you a good 4 years possibly more than that.storage only effects loading times not fps and i dont think even if you get sata express drives(there not released yet)and sata express motherboards,you wont get much of a real world performance benifit only in benchmarks
 
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Sata III is 6Gbps speeds (750 MegaBytes per second) which will cap out anything you get today. Just make sure you get the fastest SSD you can afford

You will be good for 5+ years
 
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Sata express and m.2 are new stuff, it will take time until those become an standard for fast computing like SSDs did when they were released. Price/performance the 850 is not that of a big jump from the 840 EVO series, but if you were to go for a SSD, I think that is the best you can get by now. M.2 and SATA express will be the rich guy trendy now, but SATA 3 will still be good for years to come.
 
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SATA3 is a fully utilized connection standard (meaning, there will never be an appreciably faster SSD on that SATA3 connection then a samsung 850); in order for faster SSDs to come out they need SATA4 to come out. I know it's in the works but i haven't seen anything announced that will have it... so it might not come out till 2016 or so.
 
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I know this has been beatin to death, but would you gain performance from raid 0 or 1. If 750mb/s is the max capability for sata 3, and 540/520mb/s drive is the fastest you can buy.. If I raided my ssds, I would be able to reach the max threshold. Maybe even buy cheaper ssds. Also I have no important information that I need to secure.

I want to say thanks for the informative and fast replies.

Sent via PS4 *The peasant*
 
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SSD RAID can be crazy, some guy had made a post in Tom's asking if his drives were broken because the benchmark softwares he used for data transfer speed shown results off the charts XD. RAID 1, 0, etc were already impresively good for HDDs, for SSDs is just a mile of a step ahead.
 
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Interesting. Just about every post I read said there is no real world difference. Could that be because software hasnt caught up yet..? Also they said it's not worth the trouble. Especially if TRIM isn't supported because the speed of your ssds degrade.
 
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If the motherboard support the RAID modes and the SSD does, there shouldnt be further complications.
 
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don't listen to the guys spouting about RAID0 being incredible with SSDs... it isn't. the thing is, there IS NO appreciable difference in RAID 0 over just vanilla use of your ssd. that's because an SSD is just fast enough to shift the performance bottleneck back onto something else in the system (i don't know what, all i know is it doesn't matter if you have an amd or intel, an overclocked cpu or no overclock, there is no real performance bump with RAID0, so i suspect there is a bottleneck in the southbridge design or somewhere else, that's common across different cpu designs). RAID0 won't help you any in that.

worse the little gains you'd get with RAID 0 would come with x4 the failure rate of 1 drive by itself. so no... i wouldn't advise a RAID 0 setup with SSDs. they're fast enough as it is.
 
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