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A SATA SSD is a good way to speed up an aging machine, one without M2 slot. But glad to know I qualify as a professional user.
You could still stick an NVMe drive on an older system as a secondary drive, eg. as a /home drive if you're running Linux on it, by sticking it on a riser card, although you'd still need to boot off a SATA drive, and you'd take up one of your expansion slots doing that.
M2 slots are standard for more than a decade.
And those machines are still good enough to browse the web, or for text processing. I usually set them up with a small SSD for booting fast and a large HDD for the /home folder. Hell I keep a D410PT around for the times I need an absolutely silent machine (Well, as soon as I buy a picoATX for it, it will be. Too bad I missed the computer-2 case).
Does Samsung even sell a small SSD? I thought they start at like 128GB