This is the Hard drive configuration I'm looking at.  Basically I just want to add an additional 1 TB SSD for P3Dv4.  Do I add it as PCI-E card - $600 or as a secondary drive  - $360.  Does it make a difference? 

M.2 SSD: 500GB WD Blue Series M.2 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - Seq R/W: Up to 545/525 MB/s, Rnd R/W up to 100/80k (Single Drive)

INTERNAL PCI-E SSD CARD: None

Hard Drive: 3TB (3TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)

Secondary Hard Drive: None

 

Thanks,

Ken

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M.2 SSD: 500GB WD Blue Series M.2 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD

 

This is a SATA drive, so the fact it's an M.2 interface is irrelevant. it wont be any faster than a conventional SATA SSD.   It also wont function on a PCIe card

To take advantage of M.2 you need a PCIe M.2 SSD. .Something like a Samsung NVMe 960 EVO.

You just need a 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SATA SSD.  Or are you saying you have no SATA ports left? 

Which motherboard is this, and how many drives do you have now?

The motherboard in the build was this one:

MSI Z370 - A PRO ATX w/ RGB, USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 4 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 1 M.2 SATA/PCIe [Intel Optane Ready]

Ken

 

On 2/6/2018 at 9:45 PM, dmiannay said:

You might consider a slightly larger PSU to give you a bit of headroom in the event you add another 1080TI in SLI later on.  Not sure it's critical at this stage, but maybe something to consider.

I agree with this. It won't cost much to upgrade to a 1000-1200W PSU.........Doug