Hi there I am wrapping up a new build. Looking for any advice for drives to purchase and configuration.

Notes/Thoughts

• I'd like to stay under $500 total
• Thinking the Crucial P5 Plus (CT2000P5PSSD8) that's on sale now might be a good deal
• Willing to wait a month or two for upcoming drives
• Dual boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu
• I often have to run analysis on large datasets locally and moving lots of files and DBs on and off my machine, so I'm interested in PCIe 5.0 if I can increase my transfer speeds
• Also I game a lot, and I'm a nerd so I won't lie that crystaldisk numbers would be cool to tout
• The item I care about most is day to day performance and random reads

Motherboard

• MSI X670E Tomahawk Wifi
• M2_1 | PCIe 5.0 x4 2280/22110 to CPU
• M2_2, M2_3, M2_4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 2260/2280 to Chipset

Setup

• Windows 11 drive min 128GB
• Ubuntu drive min 256GB
• Windows Games/Program drive or partition min 1TB
• Shared files drive or partition min 1TB

The Crucial P5 Plus is a bit more but is a Gen 4 drive. It's quite a bit faster than it.

It's actually cheaper than the 970 Evo Plus 2TB directly from Amazon.

PCPartPicker Part List

It’s on Amazon for the same price. No heat sink.

PCPartPicker Part List

It's cheaper if you select Amazon as the seller. My link is linking a third-party seller. Hold on, I'll try to send you the Amazon link.

Here you go.

Much better storage option