m.2 and sata ssd combor or no

[porttripod]

ok so im buildig a new pc soon and im going to get a 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 as my boot driive and have some of my main games and programs on there, and was wondering if getting a 1tb sata ssd for everything else was a good idea over a normal hdd.

 

[CountMike]

SSD will definitively be faster but for pure data storage it's not necessary, money would better spent on getting larger HDD or on some better other element like CPU or GPU.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

The idea of SSD only storage is great. Programs and games become larger. It will significantly lower load times. Especially, battle/level/map load times in games. Though split SSD storage is not that good. For the same reason of larger files. I was using 240 SSD and couldn't fit all my games into one drive.
So i see no point in boot drive smaller than 500GB.

First clarifications:
1. SATA is a protocol, not form factor. SATA SSDs can be in M.2 (any length), 2.5" and 3.5" form factors
2. M.2 is a connector type. the SSD for M.2 can use either NVMe protocol or SATA protocol. NVMe SSDs are faster than SATA ones. Bit in real life usage, the advantage is very small. for example windows boot time is 4-6 seconds with any of them.

so instead of split storage, get a single 1TB ssd like this one https://pcpartpicker.com/product/RKhj4D/crucial-mx300-11tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-ct1050mx300ssd4 and save the 100$ on the 960 EVO

if you insist on NVMe, a 1TB 960 EVO will cost just a bit more than 1TB SSD + 250GB 960 EVO. ~440$