Solid State Drives - Any Recommendations?

I’ve had 5 days of pain (frustration really) due to a seemingly failing HDD. I think at the moment things have stabilised a bit, the drive is no longer running constantly at 100% and clearly unable to read, it has been fairly stable for a few hours.

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Whilst I would like to replace the whole unit, financially this isn’t really viable at the moment, so I am contemplating the purchase of a SSD to replace it with. This would be my first. I am a SSD newb. :blush:

So, any recommendations? Anything I should know beforehand Any gotchas?

I’m currently considering the SanDisk Ultra 3D SSD 500GB

I was hoping to spare myself any downtime, and thus had invested a lot of time trying to repair, instead of having to pop a new drive in and reinstall Windows and all the other software I have installed. That was plan A, it didn’t turn out as hoped and the A-Team did not arrive.

Thanks in advance for any info/suggestions.


Updated Fri May 11 2018 17:45

Bought the above in the end, huge improvement in boot times, it is literally quite insane.

I use 2 Samsung ssd one 120gb for the os and a 500gb that well really I only use it for unity now but installed my games to. I’ve had zero issues out of either, the 500 I’ve only had for a few months but the 120 about 7 years. There is a read/write life on them but I really couldn’t give you a realistic estimation on it is as mine is still going strong.

The only thing you really should need to do it there is an option in the bios to tell it its an ssd, but I went years with it set to hdd with no problem because I didn’t know it was there.

As far as changing it out, turn the power off > pop the side off > unhook the power and sata cables > unscrew the old hdd from the its dock and slap the new one in (there may be an adapter you need to make it fit as ever ssd I’ve seen is 2.5", this really depends on your case mine doesn’t need it) > reverse the process > load whatever on it.

About 10-20 minutes to take out the old and put the new in for someone that has never done it before. Load whatever software you need loaded.

I really love my ssd’s the load time difference are insane. From off to fully running with everything that I have to start up completely running is around 15-17 seconds. Well worth the money to get one imo. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the reply and sharing your experience and information Keith, appreciated.

It has been smooth sailing so far which I’m really pleased about, as you say, the load times are insane. I have programs that used to seem to take an age to load before which are now a second or two - I like that - a lot!

I will have a look in the bios, thanks for the heads up on that one, although I seem to recall that my options are fairly sparse in there.

I have never seen Windows load on to anything as fast as it did during this process, of course, it moved the delay all to the DVD drive… lol… thanks again :slight_smile:

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