Just because I can and I enjoy building PC's, I'm going to build myself a value, budget-friendly computer with a side goal of it being as quiet as I can make it.
I bought the Noctua NH-U14S CPU heat-sink+fan for it's quietness. If the case fans on the Cooler Master are too loud, I'll replace them with quieter ones.
I also plan on taking the NVME SSD out of my current Alienware PC and putting this in as the main storage device. I'm fairly sure I can do that and preserve the Linux OS as is and make it work without re-installing. If not, no biggie as I can re-install it if I have to. The 1TB SSD will be for backups and extra storage as I'll partition it in half for each purpose.
Edit: Actually, I'm going to leave that m2 NVMe in the Alienware after all. I remembered that I have a spare Samsung 512GB SSD laying around not doing anything. I'll use that as the boot storage device. Then I think I'll put a vanilla install of Debian on it and then rice it with my i3wm configs.
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