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External with a Gen4 SSD is the golden ticket. Gen5 and you lose the speed gains due to TB5 anyway. Best bet is something like a 980 pro from Samsung and an Acasis TB5 enclosure. You'll maximise the TB5 throughput this way without wasting money on a newer gen5 9100 pro ssd where you wouldn't realise

It also depends on the type of files you’re handling and if RAW- the speed of the drive where your RAW cache is being stored. What files are you processing? Large RAW files? For example, I run an old Ryzen9 5900X with an RTX3090 & 32GB 4000mhz RAM on Samsung 980 Pro 4tb editing drives & Toshiba MG E

Respectfully, in the real world he may only see 1-2% of a performance loss with the gpu with PCIE3. For storage SATA SSDs are arguably more than fast enough for the vast majority of games to where there is pretty much no difference between a NVME or SATA and more than fast enough for anything else o

That 9800X3D is going to absolutely crush 1440p gaming but you might want to consider stepping up the motherboard a bit. The B650E-M is fine but if you're already spending that much in CPU maybe look at X670E board for better VRMs and more features. Also that Patriot SSD is decent value but Samsung

The P310 is solid choice for that price range! I got similar one last year and works great in my laptop setup. Maybe check if you can find WD Black or Samsung 980 Pro on sale - sometimes they drop to around 140-150€ and give you bit better performance for future builds 🔥 Just make sure whatever you

I'm using an Orico TB4 enclosure with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for over 3 years now and it is really fast and realiable comparing to Samsung T7 which I used previously, so I recommend it too. The enclosure+nvme combo was a reasonable investment before ssd prices went crazy.

I REALLY wanted to hear this man 😭. Thank you so much, I was scared if I'm going with a wrong build or bottleneck etc etc, this clears every doubts I had, you're awesome man, thanks alot for tellinge all this! Also, the reason I was considering samsung 980 pro with only 1 month warranty was because