ASUS ROG Strix GL702VT 17.3in Gaming Notebook Review

HDD Performance

The Hitachi hard disk is a reasonable performer, but this is significantly behind what desktop HDDs can now deliver – in excess of 200MB/sec for the best examples. And, of course, SATA SSDs are three times faster still, then PCI Express NVMe SSDs well beyond that.

In fact, the latest PCI Express NVM SSDs can read at 3,400MB/sec, nearly 30 times as fast. But at least you get 1TB to put all your games on with this notebook – in some ways, a more important consideration when each game can be 30-50GB.