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The speed difference is very noticeable. I went from a pretty nice drive to a P41 and after loading all of my junk on startup the difference is very noticeable.

Plus cheaper drives tend to struggle REALLY bad with writes past like 2 gigs. I’ve had drives that struggle and perform worse than a sata SSD.