For context, my brother gave me Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 for my birthday, and it has to be installed on an SSD. When I installed it on my D: drive, which, is an HDD, the game froze a few seconds into the opening cutscene, but the sound kept playing. After looking up this problem online, I found out that the hardware requirements section on the game’s store page says “SSD required”.
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https://www.newegg.com/team-group-2tb-mp33-nvme-1-3/p/N82E16820331431
This is the best budged m.2 drive out there right now. I used this for my most recent PC build. Works great. If you have an m.2 slot that is. If you don’t, I’d suggest getting a PCIe adapter for one. They come in variety.