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what ssd's should i buy?

Ashleyyyy
By Ashleyyyy
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so i'm faced with crippeling storage problems, and it's about time i fixed it. 

 

i want to buy several drives. my PC has 2 250gb drives in it right now. an 850 EVO with Windows on it and an SU650 that stores my games. 

 

it needs several more drives. i want a fast drive of 500gb to store a Linux install, and a high capacity ssd (1tb ideally) to store stuff like VM's and games on the linux side. this high capacity drive does not need to be fast. it only needs to store large things that i don't access often. 

 

what would be the best ssd's to buy? i'm on a bit of a budget so i want the price to stay reasonable. i'm located in the netherlands. 

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Do you have any M.2 drives installed? I think most motherboards have the capacity for at least one of those. Obviously depends on the motherboards of course.

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34 minutes ago, Ashley xD said:

it needs several more drives. i want a fast drive of 500gb to store a Linux install, and a high capacity ssd (1tb ideally) to store stuff like VM's and games on the linux side. this high capacity drive does not need to be fast. it only needs to store large things that i don't access often. 

Why buy 2 separate ones? Just get 1-2TB (whatever you can afford) mx500/860evo/870evo/wd blue/barracuda 120 IMO. Or you can even take a look at 2TB 870QVO, it is QLC and not super fast, but 2TB version is pretty decent and can be worth buying in case it is sufficiently cheaper than other options.

 

The way you are planning to do it, with 2 small drives already in you pc, you are setting yourself up for a situation where you'll have whole bunch of small drives which will soon become too small to be useful. You'll also run out of sata pretty fast.

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