I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means, but I really wonder how much influence drives actually have on games.
My gaming computer had an old SATA SSD (Samsung 840 Evo IIRC). Some games took ages to load (particularly Fallout 4). I switched to a much faster NVME drive, and subjectively, it's not any faster loading games. I'd say this was a very underwhelming purchase.
There's certainly diminishing returns between "an SSD" and "a faster SSD" (unless the slower one is DRAMless or QLC), but hard drive to SSD is still a big gulf
My gaming computer had an old SATA SSD (Samsung 840 Evo IIRC). Some games took ages to load (particularly Fallout 4). I switched to a much faster NVME drive, and subjectively, it's not any faster loading games. I'd say this was a very underwhelming purchase.