PCIe SSD Recommendation for Home Server

[AMD Lover]

I've been crazy busy the past year but I've got a new job now as a network engineer. I'm getting back around to finishing up some projects and I would like to put a NVME PCIe SSD in my home server.

 

Any recommendations on what PCIe SSD is best right now? Looking to stay under $500 or near**

[mikat]

Probably the samsung 960 evo  (or pro if you're really going to be hammering this drive hard and need the extra endurance)

[Electronics Wizardy]

what are you using the drive for? How much endurance do you need? What interface? How much write performance do you need? Do you need powerloss protection? Whats the sepcs of the server?

[AMD Lover]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what are you using the drive for? How much endurance do you need? What interface? How much write performance do you need? Do you need powerloss protection? Whats the sepcs of the server?

Basically only need the drive for operating system, and programs such as Plex, Ubiquiti UniFi controller, and random other programs... Putty, etc.

 

All of my Plex media and backed up files are stored on a separate RAID array of hard drives.

 

Server is fairly barebones, 8GB RAM, Xeon quad-core (non-hyperthreading). Interface is PCIe 3.0

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, AMD Lover said:

Basically only need the drive for operating system, and programs such as Plex, Ubiquiti UniFi controller, and random other programs... Putty, etc.

 

All of my Plex media and backed up files are stored on a separate RAID array of hard drives.

 

Server is fairly barebones, 8GB RAM, Xeon quad-core (non-hyperthreading). Interface is PCIe 3.0

so pcie slot ssd?

 

How much storage do you need?

 

What specfic hardware? what xeon?

 

Do you need this to be bootable?

 

Id probably suggest more ram aswell.