Spiney Loc: Reading, PA

I hope to buy a SSDD to use as my drive C in my imaging PC. It will be the boot and also my programs but not the data.

For those of you who have added a SSDD or bought a PC with one have you experienced the same, better, or worse reliability of the spinning drive it replaced. Any recommendations of MFG's, type such as NAND? I'm looking at probably 250gb and hope to by by Black Friday/ Cyber Monday. Probably from either Amazon, Best Buy, or New Egg. Thanks, Spiney-Dave

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Samsung EVO 250 or 500GB. I have the 500GB, and it has 391GB out of 476GB available. I have the OS and all my programs on it - PS, LR, and lots of others. In a recent article, this was the writer's top choice for most users. With mine, I got software and a cable to duplicate the C drive onto the SSD. Easy peasy. Some links below -

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-ssds/
http://www.trustedreviews.com/guide/best-ssds

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

I have three laptops all fitted with SSD's, they are only 120gb Kingston drives which have Windows 10 installed. This leaves about 80gb of storage which ample for temporary storage mainly photographs. These remain on the SSD until they have all been processed, then I transfer them to a HDD for permanent storage. The increase in speed is excellent and all machines boot up in 25-30 seconds and with an increase in RAM to my maximum of 16gb and does a brilliant job when post processing.
I recommend that you upgrade to an SSD as soon as possible, a 120gb is ample if you manage you files like I do.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Consumer SSDs are all NAND flash in nature. I would contend that good quality current SSDs are at least as reliable as spinning disk and probably better, although we do not have the large scale data as most large disk farms which publish reliability data use SATA (spinning discs) due to cost. I can tell you that I have been running 8 Intel SSDs for 6 years without a failure, but that is clearly anecdotal evidence. I will state however, that in general. a mechanical system is more likely to fail than a solid state one. I would suggest either Samsung or Intel. Samsungs are very highly rated, and while Intels are pricey, they have an excellent reliability record. What type of SSD you choose and how it’s connected ( SATA, nvme, m2, etc.) depends on what you have available on the compute side. If you have an onboard 6gb SATA controller for your other drives, you may chose to use that although it’s not the fastest way to interface your new drive. If, on the other hand, you have an extra PCIe slot and/or are willing to buy a different controller card, you may choose a higher speed interface.

Spiney Loc: Reading, PA

Thank you all for informative replies. I plan on getting a quality, SSD ASAP

Pegasus Loc: Texas Gulf Coast

I am amazed how the prices have come down. I have several SSDs; Intel and Samsung. In my laptop, I have three drives; 2 SSDs and an HDD. I installed the second SSD last year and it is a Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III 1TB. I use it to store big files such as a Linux partition with an Oracle 12c server instance running on it; it is FAST. They also have the PRO version, which is a little more expensive and a little faster, but I would not worry about that.

Let me just say that SSDs are excellent and superior to HDD in every way except cost. I buy big SSDs because I then to keep my laptops a long time, but also, I can moved them from one system to the next and worse comes to worse, I can take them out of my laptop and put them in a small enclosure to use on another laptop.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I've had an Intel SSD 240 GB. I upgraded to 1 TB Samsung EVO 850, used Acronis and a USB to Sata cable to recover my entire drive onto the 1 TB. Took out the 240 GB, installed the 1 TB and off to the races in about an hour. Very similar to Jerry - Have my OS on the SSD drive. All other data is on two other internals and externals. I have a similar setup on my laptop. You'll love the speed of the SSD.
Mark

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

I've used Samsung primarily and have had no problems with two 500GB and two 1TB drives. I have several smaller units as well but I'd have to check their makes. The smaller units are in external portable drive housings for backup while on the road.

bwa

shelty Loc: Medford, OR

I have a Samsung 750 gb ssd and I love it. It's faster and m,ore reliable.

Ed Cala

I purchased a Samsung 500 GB SSD 2 years ago for my aging HP Series 64 PC.
I have had good luck with it. It shaved considerable time off of boot-up on Windows 7.
Whatever brand you might choose, check prices among sources like ebay, Amazon and directly from the manufacturer's on-line store.

Ed

Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX

Hi - - Spiney
I'd not put anything less than a 500 GB SSD in as a system drive, AND then have a separate 4TB data drive.
I install MOST of my programs on the data drive (and have a separate SSD Swap Drive that handles the heavy lifting)
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http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-496767-1.html#8373552

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

I use this same one for my desktop, and have had no problems with it for 2 years.