Cheapest PCI-E SSD?

[suchamoneypit]

Im building a server very soon. Its boot drive is going to be a samsung 850 evo, 120GB, for fast boot times to minimize any downtime. The mobo im getting has plenty of PCI-E slots. Im currently spending $60 for 120GB of storage, but are there any cheap PCI-E SSDs that can give me the same storage but much faster speeds (more expensive is expected)? I would even be willing to go to 64GB since its just going to hold running programs, no games. Right now the cheapest ones on newegg are around $200, which is out of budget for the drive.

[79wjd]

I have to question why you think you need an SSD for a boot drive on a server. Realistically the server should basically never be offline (making boot times completely irrelevant). 

[Robman1]

9 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

Im building a server very soon. Its boot drive is going to be a samsung 850 evo, 120GB, for fast boot times to minimize any downtime. The mobo im getting has plenty of PCI-E slots. Im currently spending $60 for 120GB of storage, but are there any cheap PCI-E SSDs that can give me the same storage but much faster speeds (more expensive is expected)? I would even be willing to go to 64GB since its just going to hold running programs, no games. Right now the cheapest ones on newegg are around $200, which is out of budget for the drive.

Here ya go, fun making informed decisions I have found. I like the Samsung 950 NVMe personallyhttp://www.amazon.com/Samsung-950-PRO-Internal-MZ-V5P512BW/dp/B01639694M 

Here all hard drives with performance marks and prices

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html

[suchamoneypit]

25 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

I have to question why you think you need an SSD for a boot drive on a server. Realistically the server should basically never be offline (making boot times completely irrelevant). 

Updates need to be installed, and restarts must happen. When i do restart, or want to restart to do something, I need the downtime to be as little as possible. Just on my PC I went from taking 3-5 minutes to be full speed and everything on boot, to 10-15 seconds, using an SSD. Right now with my personal PC If I do a complete restart all servers are back online within 10-12 seconds. Its so quick users aren't even kicked from my servers, it just views it as a few second drop-out and everyone reconnects.

 

This is just not achievable with an HDD.