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RussianCow76

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I was wondering is there was an SSD that had exceptional read performance (1000mb/sec or better) but at a really cheap price sacrificing total storage amounts. In particular one around 32 gigs of total storage. My plan was to find a small storage SSD with extremely fast read speed, but with only around 30gb of storage to put windows 10 onto, then put the rest of my programs on an 850 EVO SSD. the only ones I know of that have at least 1000mb/sec of read are ones like the 950 pros or the Intel ones where they are way up at 3000mb/sec and cost in excess of $300.
 
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32GB? What do you want to use this for?

Multiple issues with your 'requirement':

1. There is no 32GB drive that operates at that speed.
2. A 32GB drive is too small for...
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Nope, I'm not aware of any storage hardware that performs at those speeds that is anywhere near cheap.

Saving for a 500GB or 1TB 850 EVO will be by far and away the most straight-forward course of action, and will still provide you with outstanding performance.
 
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To get the speeds you're looking for, your mobo needs to support NVMe and an M.2 slot or open PCIe x4 slot to use an M.2 SSD riser card. The SATA III ports on your mobo max out at 6Gb/s. SSD's on the SATA III ports can reach up to 550/520MB/s sequential read and sequential write speed rates respectively.

The cheapest I've see so far is the Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe M.2 250GB at around 130 USD.
 
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32GB? What do you want to use this for?

Multiple issues with your 'requirement':

1. There is no 32GB drive that operates at that speed.
2. A 32GB drive is too small for the OS.
3. Having an SSD for 'only the OS' is throwing away 1/2 the functionality of having an SSD in the first place.
4. For an OS drive, you will see very little actual difference between a SATA SSD and an NVMe drive.
5. You need a motherboard that will support an NVMe drive, and for the OS, one that can boot from it. Not all can.

Now...what is your budget?
 
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