Hello,
I'm currently in the market to buy a new SSD. However, I'm very unfamiliar with the differences between the various types, whether my motherboard would even support some of them, and if one type is more appropriate for my needs versus another.
My system has a MSI Z390-A Pro motherboard, with a Thermaltake 600 Watt (SMART Series 80 PLUS gold) power supply. For storage, it is equipped with a 240 GB Western Digital Green SSD and a 1TB Western Digital blue Drive (HDD).
From my understanding, my motherboard should be able to support the following memory slots:
-two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots
-four PCIe 3.0 x1 slots
-six SATA III ports (1 taken by SSD, 1 taken by HDD currently)
-one M.2 slot.
So I really only need the additional SSD storage for two primary purposes - gaming (I'm a sucker for slightly faster load times) and data file storage (neuroimaging data, such as EEG files). From what I've read, the SATA should suffice, as the other more advanced SSDs don't seem to add much.
But I wanted to check this with people who actually know what they are talking about, because I'm honestly ignorant to this all. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I'm currently in the market to buy a new SSD. However, I'm very unfamiliar with the differences between the various types, whether my motherboard would even support some of them, and if one type is more appropriate for my needs versus another.
My system has a MSI Z390-A Pro motherboard, with a Thermaltake 600 Watt (SMART Series 80 PLUS gold) power supply. For storage, it is equipped with a 240 GB Western Digital Green SSD and a 1TB Western Digital blue Drive (HDD).
From my understanding, my motherboard should be able to support the following memory slots:
-two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots
-four PCIe 3.0 x1 slots
-six SATA III ports (1 taken by SSD, 1 taken by HDD currently)
-one M.2 slot.
So I really only need the additional SSD storage for two primary purposes - gaming (I'm a sucker for slightly faster load times) and data file storage (neuroimaging data, such as EEG files). From what I've read, the SATA should suffice, as the other more advanced SSDs don't seem to add much.
But I wanted to check this with people who actually know what they are talking about, because I'm honestly ignorant to this all. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!