by RealNC » Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:10 am
Jizaboz wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:55 am
Ok kid from Back to the Future II that gives people shit about using a somehow-still-working lightgun to play Wild Gunman.
Don't you already have you already have an internal SSD icj? Me and Flack have em.. and I have a big magnetic drive (Flack has at least 50 of these) but have been thinking of buying a SSD that uses SATA as another drive. The prices are still a bit high on that type..
Well, I was thinking that since icj said the computer is gonna be used for web browsing and such, a big drive is probably not needed. So if the motherboard has M.2 ports, a 500GB (about $60-$70) or 1TB ($100-$130) NVME would be the best option. A normal, spinning HDD would just result in more noise.
Also, it seems that M.2 SSDs cost about the same as the 2.5" ones, so if your board has M.2 slots, there's no reason to get 2.5" SSDs. You get rid of two cables that way, as M.2 SSDs plug directly into the mainboard (like RAM does.)
And (again, if the mainboard supports it), NVME M.2 SSDs are very close in price to SATA M.2s. So go for an NVME. The Samsung I linked above for example reads and writes at well over 3GB/s. (That's giga
bytes, not giga
bits.) A SATA SSD on the other hand, regardless of whether it's a traditional 2.5" one or an M.2, is limited to about 550MB/s.
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Ok kid from Back to the Future II that gives people shit about using a somehow-still-working lightgun to play Wild Gunman. :cool:
Don't you already have you already have an internal SSD icj? Me and Flack have em.. and I have a big magnetic drive (Flack has at least 50 of these) but have been thinking of buying a SSD that uses SATA as another drive. The prices are still a bit high on that type..
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Well, I was thinking that since icj said the computer is gonna be used for web browsing and such, a big drive is probably not needed. So if the motherboard has M.2 ports, a 500GB (about $60-$70) or 1TB ($100-$130) NVME would be the best option. A normal, spinning HDD would just result in more noise.
Also, it seems that M.2 SSDs cost about the same as the 2.5" ones, so if your board has M.2 slots, there's no reason to get 2.5" SSDs. You get rid of two cables that way, as M.2 SSDs plug directly into the mainboard (like RAM does.)
And (again, if the mainboard supports it), NVME M.2 SSDs are very close in price to SATA M.2s. So go for an NVME. The Samsung I linked above for example reads and writes at well over 3GB/s. (That's giga[b]bytes[/b], not giga[b]bits[/b].) A SATA SSD on the other hand, regardless of whether it's a traditional 2.5" one or an M.2, is limited to about 550MB/s.