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?

@typhlosion depending on where you're putting it, consider a heat sink for your NVMe drive

signed, someone who had to replace two of them in the same laptop because they fried themselves

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@Xkeeper it will be going into a kind of dusty but otherwise pretty spacious pc tower, so heat shouldn't be too big of an issue

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