Which Type of SSD should I Get?

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I am planning to rebuild my gaming PC. I know that I want to get another solid state drive. However, I do not know if I should go with either a SATA 6GB based SSD or a PCI Express based SSD. I will primarily use this computer for gaming, drone training simulator software, and Microsoft Office documents. I will be using the SSD to store the operating system, software for certain hardware components, and a few games (if I get an SSD that is around 500 GB in storage capacity). Which should I go for? Also, I know that there are benchmarks on response times for SSDs such as read and write speeds that show differences, but how much of a difference in response and load times would I see with different brand SSDs in the real world? Also, I intend to add two hard drive based storage drives in my build, would I be better off with either two 7200 rpm hard drives or two hybrid drives? Thanks in advance.
 
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You really dont need an NVME M2 SSD unless you are constantly transferring huge files for some reason (which wont do the M2 drive any good anyway), and the money you'd save getting a SATA M2 or 2.5" drive would be put to better use elsewhere.

Load times would be faster with an NVME, but a SATA SSD is still way fast enough for most peoples needs. The IOPS and 4k benches are more important than the sequential read/write speeds, and that's down to the memory controller type which is what accounts for the differences in price of seemingly similar SSD's. The Samsung's are expensive for a reason (but still a little over-priced).

I'd avoid hybrid drives altogether as they are too unreliable, and get some higher end 7200rpm ones with 64MB...
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You really dont need an NVME M2 SSD unless you are constantly transferring huge files for some reason (which wont do the M2 drive any good anyway), and the money you'd save getting a SATA M2 or 2.5" drive would be put to better use elsewhere.

Load times would be faster with an NVME, but a SATA SSD is still way fast enough for most peoples needs. The IOPS and 4k benches are more important than the sequential read/write speeds, and that's down to the memory controller type which is what accounts for the differences in price of seemingly similar SSD's. The Samsung's are expensive for a reason (but still a little over-priced).

I'd avoid hybrid drives altogether as they are too unreliable, and get some higher end 7200rpm ones with 64MB caches and proper warranties. I'd recommend the WD Black if you can stretch to it.
 
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