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I'd go with the 850. SATA is plenty fast, and unless you're able to take advantage of loading times on more items then I don't think booting into Windows a couple seconds faster is worth it. 

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Personally, I'd rather take more capacity as SATA-speeds are already good enough for general apps and games. NVME-speeds would really only be worth it with a bunch of virtual-machines or such tasks, IMHO. That said, you have to decide for yourself how important it is that games load 1-2 seconds faster or that you can fit many more apps and games on the disk without having to juggle between or monitor your disk-space so often.

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You mean SATA or PCIe. M.2 is just a form factor (shape) and can come in SATA (which uses AHCI) or PCIe (which uses NVMe). 

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