[SOLVED] Mid-tier-ish Sata SSD or Budget-tier-ish NVMe SSDs?

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I live on the Philippines and some SSDs are not available in my country. I'm using a spreadsheet I found in reddit and I found Team Elite 512GB MP34 is my best bet. And the other are the Samsung 970 Evo (which is out of my budget), WD SN550 (DRamless, which is not great for OS drive), Kingston A2000 (which is a much cheaper but not good), and PNY CS3030 and Adata XPG SX8200 Pro (which has both have downgraded performance). I have a GA-B150M-D3H (rev 1.0), is it compatible?
 
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I was planning on upgrading to an SSD. I only have a small budget, using the listing and availability of SSDs in my country I was stuck on Samsung 860 EVO 500GB Sata M.2, Kingston A2000 500GB, PNY XLR8 CS3030 500GB, Team Elite 512GB MP34, or ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 512GB. I'm going to use it as my os drive but I have another 1TB HDD for large apps. Which SSD should I buy?
Once you switch from spinning disk to solid state, the gains are minimal. Get the largest you can.
I would always recommend a Samsung over other brands.

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I have settle on this three SSDs, I didn't include WD SN550 because its DRamless and I'll be replacing my boot drive since I've been running HDD for the few years now. All of this drive is either 500 or 512GB, which one should I use? Some of the SSDs like Intel and Sabrent are not available in my country, Samsung drive are out of my budget range.
 

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I was planning on upgrading to an SSD. I only have a small budget, using the listing and availability of SSDs in my country I was stuck on Samsung 860 EVO 500GB Sata M.2, Kingston A2000 500GB, PNY XLR8 CS3030 500GB, Team Elite 512GB MP34, or ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 512GB. I'm going to use it as my os drive but I have another 1TB HDD for large apps. Which SSD should I buy?
 

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I was planning on upgrading to an SSD. I only have a small budget, using the listing and availability of SSDs in my country I was stuck on Samsung 860 EVO 500GB Sata M.2, Kingston A2000 500GB, PNY XLR8 CS3030 500GB, Team Elite 512GB MP34, or ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 512GB. I'm going to use it as my os drive but I have another 1TB HDD for large apps. Which SSD should I buy?
Once you switch from spinning disk to solid state, the gains are minimal. Get the largest you can.
I would always recommend a Samsung over other brands.
 
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