The Impact Of HDD/SSD Performance On Linux Gaming

In games with not many assets to load from the disk, there isn't a big impact between the SSDs. But using the HDD is generally a few seconds slower to load the game.

Of course, the disk speed doesn't impact the end frame-rate result... Unless it's a poorly engineered game.

In the case of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the tested disks didn't yield any measurable impact on loading performance, even with the RadeonSI's OpenGL on-disk shader cache.

Metro Last Light Redux as well didn't yield any measurable difference across the tested storage devices.

The same goes for Serious Sam 3...

Civilization VI was taking longer with the HDD and when switching to the Optane SSD it shaved just a few seconds off the load time.