Best 1TB M.2 SSD?

[Guest lilbman]

Hello,

 

I have a thing for silent computers, and when I'm not gaming on my laptop, the loudest thing, surprisingly, is the mechanical hard drive.  To fix this issue and to have a basically silent computer when it's not gaming, I would like to purchase an M.2 SSD, preferably with 1TB of storage.  I would probably take the 4TB mechanical drive and stick it in an external enclosure, as I use barely any of it anyway.

 

Because my 15 R3 has 3(?) places to stick an M.2 drive and one is taken, would it be cheaper to buy a singular 1TB or two 512 GB SSDs and run those in RAID 0?  Which would be the most cost effective?  Budget is $350, I prefer to spend my self given PC allowance money on my desktop.

[Enderman]

Don't do raid.

[Guest lilbman]

2 hours ago, Enderman said:

Don't do raid.

Doesn't it yield faster speeds though?

[Enderman]

26 minutes ago, lilbman said:

Doesn't it yield faster speeds though?

And more problems and complications and risk of losing stuff.

[suits]

960 Pro is the best. 960 Evo if you don't want to pay the premium

[MeDownYou]

Best is kinda subjective on an M.2. most reliable? Smallest? Great priced? Most stable? ECC support?

 

But IMO get 1 large drive vs 2 smaller ones. Make sure the one you get isn't TLC, and compare the speeds.

[Guest lilbman]

19 hours ago, suits said:

960 Pro is the best. 960 Evo if you don't want to pay the premium

 

18 hours ago, MeDownYou said:

Best is kinda subjective on an M.2. most reliable? Smallest? Great priced? Most stable? ECC support?

 

But IMO get 1 large drive vs 2 smaller ones. Make sure the one you get isn't TLC, and compare the speeds.

I don't need THAT fast of a drive.  Mainly all I store on my large drive is games, and I probably wouldn't notice the difference in speed between a 960 Pro and something like a WD Blue.