T500

SmallRig handheld phone cage kit (The one with 15w cooler) SMALLRIG 67 mm Threaded Filter Adapter helps with attaching the neewer variable nd filter The SSD is actually very expensive cause of current ram inflations, anyways Crucial T500 in a uGreen Enclosure. Then an anker powerbank and rode mic

Yeah Crucial T500 gen 5 SSD but at the current market price its way too costly.

It's crazy thinking back in November 2025 when I was building an identical rig (same GPU/CPU/motherboard but with 96GBs of RAM and in a Velka 7), that I balked at buying another 4TB NVME Crucial t500 SSD because of the price at $286.87.. Now Crucial doesn't sell to consumers. And instead of the RAM,

Your issue sounded eerily similar to mine except the culprit was the NVME died. ADATA in 2021 made garbage NVMEs and I bought 2 of their 1TB drives and made one of them my boot drive. I thought my X870E Taichi & 9950X3D rig of a year plus was a goner but nope, just cheap drive. Ironically my boot dr

i feel you on being scared to open it up. your AN517-54 has two m.2 slots and they're both pcie gen3, not gen4. that crucial t500 will work but it'll run at gen3 speeds (about 3500mb/s) so you're paying extra for speed you cant use. id grab a gen3 drive like the samsung 970 evo plus or crucial p3 in