I recycled the old 1TB Samsung PCIe4 NVMe from my old PC to the new one, again as the system drive. I replaced the other 1TB Samsung PCIe4 NVMe with a 2TB Samsung PCIe4 NVMe. I didn't feel like PCIe5 would bring anything but heat, seeing how I don't do massive video editing. I don't believe the SSDs have been giving me any trouble, but now that you mentioned it, who knows. I do believe I damaged my old CPU by running four DIMMs at the specs meant for two DIMMs, while according to the manual the speed should have been kept much slower. Every time I dropped the speed, the system was more stable... until it wasn't anymore. Win11 on this new PC hasn't been crashing, but I haven't yet checked the OS integrity on the system disk. If there are errors, again like on the old PC, then maybe my system drive is pining for the fjords as well.

I can't say I'd have anything bad to say about NVMe drives. They do load faster than SATA SSDs. But the PCIe5 drives with active cooling elements are just ridiculous.