I did a comparison of the Pro and the EVO M2, seems the Pro is a little faster. But PCIe gets rid of one of the classic bottlenecks and a couple of cables.
It also eliminates the need for the HD cage completely.
I'm thinking the 500gig version will suffice, I don't store a lot of stuff. Right now my SSD C: has about 70 gigs and the VRaptor has 60 gigs, leaving lots of space on the M2.
Backups can go on an external SSD I already have.
As of now the price tag is about $1000., without the cooler and video card. The cooler I picked in an earlier poast. The video card remains the question. I don't game, nor photoshop but it needs to support at least 1 DVI (preferably 2) and 1 HDMI for my two monitors.
I am looking at an Nvidia GForce GTX 960 but I am open to any other ideas.
EDIT turns out that's what you used, but Newegg is out of stock, maybe its been replaced.?
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