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.
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.
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.