CRUCIAL MX500 500GB

$86

Crucial always has it covered when it comes to SSDs. This time around, we’re using its MX500, giving us half a terabyte of SATA storage to play with. This will be our boot drive, containing the OS and immediate file storage. We did look into using a smaller M.2 SSD for our primary drive, but even the launch of NVMe Gen4 hasn’t lowered the prices of older M.2 drives enough for this low-cost build, so we’re sticking with SATA for now. 500GB isn’t quite enough for a full system, though, so we’ve enlisted some backup...