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 if you don't care about speed, why not use a cheaper SMR hard drive?
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@Hearth yeah im considering it. currently the only drive in that computer is a HDD and i want *some* kind of SSD in there to boot from so it doesn't take three minutes to boot. but i guess i could just get another HDD for the actual storage. i dunno

@typhlosion oh that makes sense, boot time is nice if you don't plan it to be on 24/7
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@Hearth i mean i'd like it to be on most of the time, but also i am bad at planning things in advance and want to minimize the painfulness of making further changes to the build in the future

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