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Does your machine not have M.2 NVME slot(s)? SATA is old and slow, and not that much cheaper per jigglybite these days...
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Yeah, my boot drive is one. I have a cheaper SSD as a data drive and was just going to add another boring SSD because that's easiest. I presume I only have a single M2 slot.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170MX-Gaming-5-rev-10
1 x M.2 Socket 3 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA & PCIe x4/x2/x1 SSD support)
3 x SATA Express connectors
6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors -
Does your machine not have M.2 NVME
My machine doesn't even have SATA😢
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gbj_tester
For a little bit more money I could get an external 2TB which might be useful with the laptop as well.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-T7-Portable-SSD-MU-PC2T0T/dp/B087DFFJRD/
But how much slower is that likely to be than the SATA option? It's not like I'm doing heaving editing or anything but I don't want it to be total shite.