Best SSD for music

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Standard empty plastic box shaped like a 2.5" HDD, solid state drives?

 

Broadly speaking, the benefits of them are not always related to music playback.  They show a considerably better capacity for data storage when powered down and safely stored than spinning hard drives.  The latter tends to forget over time if it doesn't revisit what was stored and where.  SSD also excel at constant writes, think months straight of being fed a maxed out SATA III data connection, in excess of an order of magnitude above their stated rating.  The get any good SSD with a good controller recommendation, broad as it was, stands true.

 

As to your question of recommending a specific drive.  You might want to check out this thread and see if it interests you.  If nothing else it highlights putting the OS on a small fast drive with only your programs.  M.2 do put off enough heat to require noisy fans if you don't take a lot of care crafting a passive cooling solution.  

 

How you power it and using a reasonably short high quality cable are probably the biggest factors dealing solely with SSD.