hey friends. im shopping for computer parts for the first time ever - just internal hard drives, but it's still something i don't know a whole bunch about

i'm looking for two internal SSDs, one (but not both) of which NVMe

is there anything i should keep in mind while shopping? any common hard drive pitfalls to be wary of? tips for not buying the wrong thing or screwing up the installation?

after a bit of research i figured i should clarify what im looking for

the non-nvme ssd is for a network file server, so i care about big storage, frequent reads, infrequent writes. not so much about ultra speed

@typhlosion In my experience Samsung and Crucial are both pretty good, haven’t had good luck with other brands. I have plenty of both of them in both NVMe and SATA, most of them being 2TB NVMe. Read performance is especially amazing for both.

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@fluffy i was hoping for 4TB SATA... crucial mx500 4tb is sort of the upper end of within budget for me... hmmm

okay, thank you for the feedback

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