New Hard Drive?

My hard drive failed.  My tech guy said the best one to get would be a

500GB Samsung 840 EVO


 
Any reason that would NOT be the best for Sonar?

That drive is decent, I have one for my data drive on my new daw.

I haven't tried a solid state drive for data but I am using one for the OS.  (and yes, for me, the OS and the data reside on different drives).  The computer boots very quickly and shuts down quickly.  I've not had any issues that are close to show-stoppers with the 1 TB standard eSATA drive I use for data.

I bought one of the 512 GB SSD's when they first appeared, and they were around $700 or so, as I recall it.
 
The particular one I bought failed after less than 6 months, so I ripped it out of the computer, got store credit for the return (I had an extended warranty).
 
I then used the store credit to buy a shiny new 46" HDTV and 2 regular non-SSD SATA III 2 TB 7200 rpm drives, and some Swedish fish candy.
 
While the SSD drives boot up faster, and access data quicker, I found I got a WAY bigger bang for the buck with the above listed gear, and the SATA III 7200 rpm drives I use are PLENTY fast enough for everything I do with Sonar.  As I am disabled, I am able to spend about 10 hours a day in Sonar, or otherwise working on music activities, and I have ZERO performance bottlenecks with using the regular SATA III drives.
 
If you have all the cables, plugins, and such that you need, then by all means pick up the SSD drive.
 
If the above is not the case, then I suggest you consider picking up a 1 or 2 TB regular 7200 RPM SATA III drive, or even 2 of them, and then take the savings ($120-$140ish) and look at beefing up things like main memory for your computer (perhaps go from 8 GB to 16 GB, or 16 GB to 32 GB), or take advantage of some of those end of the month sales on effects or synths or sound libraries you see.
 
If I had an extra $120-$140, I would give serious consideration to picking up East West Quantum Leap Solo Violin (currently on sale for $99), or some other synth component.
 
Anyways - I am glad you have some choices - an SSD drive would be a nice thing to have.  Balance the speed improvement against getting half as much storage for the cost, and against getting a regular SATA III drive and some extra gear or a synth for that same cash outlay (and having twice the storage).
 
Bob Bone
 

And I thought the whole point of them is there are no moving parts,, so one would expect they cannot break. Was interesting to hear that yours did Bob. Oh well, I can't afford them anyhow.. 1 TB Samsung 7200 drives  $56 Can. I can buy 6 of them for the price of  SSD. 

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My hard drive failed.  My tech guy said the best one to get would be a

500GB Samsung 840 EVO


 
Any reason that would NOT be the best for Sonar?

For a boot drive, a 500GB SSD would be nice.
The 840 EVOs are good SSDs.
 
If this is for an Audio HD (recording audio files), I would stick with a large/fast conventional HD.
The faster conventional HDs are sustaining 150+MB/Sec. (That's easily 100 solid 24Bit/44.1k tracks of audio)
 
 

Dupe post

Guys,
 
May I chip in with another different question although related;
 
Besides obvious storage issues, how does the onboard hard drive affect actual performance of Sonar?
 
From my X3 control bar, my hard drive seems to be up to 70% full and I feel my system performance is hit and miss recently at low latencies, does this have a direct effect?
 
 
Cian

i think it's common sense that SSD will be the fastest for audio (using a lot of samples like omnisphere etc)
but from all that I read durability can be an issue 

If you have the money get all SSDs.
 
But what Jim R wrote makes most sense.
 
At this point, I figger the only reason for SSDs is to reduce noise.
 
Disk drives are a very mature tech. Reliable, and cheap.
 
Once the computer boots the OS disk is seldom accessed on an audio optimized box.
 
So what!  the computer boots a few seconds faster. Optomize and save the money for a bigger disk. Always can use the storage.
 
3 disks on my comp:
500 giga   audio files
1 tera   OS, and storage: backup for audio files
3 tera   samples, storage: tutorials, downloaded installation files, and pictures of a few million naked women (my preference and comfortable with it)