Don't know about audio work, but last holiday season, my wife and I replaced our laptop HDDs with Samsung EVO 850 SSDs. They were on sale at the time, I think we paid ~US$120 each for 512GB drives.

I found some advice on the web re setting the "trim" function for the drives to help them live longer.

But they're blazingly fast compared to HDDs. Debian on my i7/16GB RAM laptop comes up to login screen in about 20 seconds. (I don't use suspend to disk or hibernate.)

I can't imagine them getting in the way of audio performance.


On December 6, 2017 1:14:01 PM HST, "Jeanette C." <julien@mail.upb.de> wrote:
Hey hey,
I'm looking into buying an SSD for my system. Information I found is sometimes
conflicting and I'm not up to date on all that. So...

Are there particular compatibility issues (in software/drivers) that I must
take into account? From the hardware side: are there certain
models/series/vendors that have proved especially advantageous to audio work?

My motherboard does offer SATA2 V3, otherwise I see no particular hardware
restrictions.

I'd be grateful for some advice. If on some points there is nothing particular
to consider that would be a sufficient answer in itself.

TIA and best wishes,

Jeanette

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