$220 seems a bit steep. I just picked up a 2500k system with 60GB SSD, 500GB HDD, 16GB of RAM, and an RX570 for $200 locally here in Orange County, CA.
It would be very cost ineffective to manufacture as there would need to be host interface hardware for both SATA as well as NVme, along with corresponding firmware.
I understand your pain. We can't even get a discount on any of the HGST drives and I work there. The employee store only has WD and Sandisk products for the most part.
That's a great choice (I don't work for Samsung but can admire good quality at a good price). I personally wouldn't enable RAPID, especially if you don't have a USP.
Interesting. Before I changed to Google WiFi I used to have a router downstairs and another router upstairs configured as an AP. Both had "guest network" features. I guess I never checked that the "guest network" on the AP was actually isolating clients connected to it from other devices on my...