SSD Upgrade..

[jadarin]

I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop with a SSD harddrive and was looking
for any recommendations...
Here's my shortlist so far..
Samsung SSD 840 pro series/Samsung SSD 840 basic series.
Crucial M500 SSD...

[tony]

I would go with the pro series. That is what is recommended for the zuma. If storing all your music on it that will be an expensive purchase

[Sligolad]

If it is for major file storage then this looks like a good bet, Samsung 840 EVO 1TB Basic SSD SATA 3,UltraSlim 7mm at £480 from Scan.
I ordered one to move my music locally on to my audio PC, I will be keeping 2 separate backups of the drive on spinning discs as i have been doing for some years now, there has been a lot of money spent on music over many years and it would be my worst nightmare to loose it all.

Being a Samsung I would hope it would be reliable as I have had good results with Samsung over the years, was an IBM HD advocate until they moved to the glass disks and they started failing some years ago.

[nige2000]

i just usually stick to major brand names, then go with price vs performance/read write speed

ive had no ssd failures to date

[jadarin]

I can pick up a 256gb samsung pro for around €170-€180.I like yourself i have 2 external harddrives for backup,just to be safe,so l think a256gb will do me for a while but has anyone any idea
how much space will be taken up on the ssd when i clone windows 8.1 o/s over.My laptop has nothing else really on the harddrive...

[nige2000]

Have a 840 here there good, but ive a 830 ehich is nearly as good and worth considering

prices vary alot check amazon
komplett ebay scan.co.uk
dont forget about del charges they can catch you out

a normal person could make do with 64gb ssd with external storage

I can survive with 128gb but 250gb odd would be nice