My old hard drive is about to give out, so it's time for a new one... Any recommendations on brand and size for audio??
 
Thanks!
 
Freq

I recently went through the process of adding a Samsung Evo 1T SSD. It's been great. No issues, fast, pretty much enough space and economical to buy. If I had a bit more budget I probably would have gone with the Pro version, but so far - more than 6 months, it's been reliable, fast, less power requirements and more space in my case. I would highly recommend it. :-)

Sorry, double post.

Samsung or Intel, size as seems sensible to you based on how much soace stuff currently occupies.

I have quite a few SSDs for video. I usually buy Sandisk. I have the Ultra II and the Extreme Pro. The Pro versions are usually like $100 more expensive. I believe Samsung offers a pro version also and the price difference is similar. Looking at the specs you will not see why there is a difference between the models so I would just get the cheaper ones. I finally called B&H Photo to find out what the difference is. I was told that the sustained speed of the drives are more consistent with the pro. And sure enough that is what I have found. I use the drives in the same external USB 3 interface and I consistently get about 450 MB/S write with the pro versions regardless of age and how full the drives are. I've found the non pro versions drop significantly in speed as the drives get filled up to around 200MB/S write. Also, the non pro versions seemed to have slowed down to around 200 MB/S write even when reformatted so they are once again blank.
 
So, I just wanted to pass this information along as to what I have found regarding the Pro versions of these drives, at least as far as Sandisk is concerned.
 
As far as size, I guess that really depends on how your going to use the drive. Audio doesn't really take up that much space. But at the same time it kinda sucks when you start running out of space. Are you going to using this drive for current projects and move off old projects. Or are you planning on storing all projects on the drive. Again, compared to video, audio projects don't really use that much room. You may want to look at how much room your current projects use just to get an idea.

3 Samsung EVO's 840/850 here, not had any issues with the drives.

I buy the cheapest name brand disks. Usually around the 50-70 euro ballmark. They all are around 240 GB size. There is less strain on the powersupply, boots faster and I like it.
 
My laptop has two. A normal 2,5 inch and a square one for a special slot. Wich works great for recording.

I use a solid-state drive as my primary drive (C:) and it is 120 GB.  It holds Windows 10, and all of my applications (stand-alone programs like Sonar and any of the synths that can run stand-alone, as well as all of the VST plugins).  I DO try to keep all content used by the applications off on 1 or more additional hard drives, so as not to fill up the C: drive.  This does take some vigilance, but with Sonar, and Office, and Visual Studio, and literally 1206 plugins, plus Native Instruments Komplete 8 Ultimate, and EastWest Composer Cloud - my little 120 GB SSD is only 50% full.
 
I spent a grand total of $39 for the above SSD, and it rocks - super cheap.
 
Others that I know have gone WAY overboard with huge SSD drives that are running them like $750-$900, and that makes ZERO sense to me, considering how little is actually NEEDED, with some moving of things around, rather than blindly accepting defaults.
 
Anyways the above are my thoughts on getting and user a solid-state C: drive.  I generally use regular 7,200 RPM HDD's for my 'data' drives - a 2 TB drive of this type is between $60-$75 and holds massive amounts of things like sample libraries and project folders.  I have 3 of those - might be a 4th in there.  Each of those runs about half full as well, and my system has zero performance issues handling anything I throw at it in a project.
 
Bob Bone
 

When I built my current DAW 3 or 4 years ago I put in a 256 gb samsung SSD and haven't had any problems with it. A couple years ago I added a 500 gb drive - I was going to put in another samsung, but they were having problems at the time so I used a Radeon/OCZ instead and haven't had any problems with it. 
 
In terms of size the bigger the better. These days I would think you'd want 500 gb or 1 tb. I use the 500 gb ssd as the system drive and it has the audio SW and vsts/vstis. I also have a 1 tb hdd that has the user folders and I put utilities and audio editors and the like there.
 
Whatever you decide on I suggest googling it first to make sure there aren't any reported problems. 
 
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887255/samsung-promises-yet-another-fix-for-slowed-840-evo-ssds.html
 
 

Thanks a ton for the recommendations... I'm thinking that the SSD will just replace my C drive... I've got a spare 7200 drive sitting around for samples and data...any thoughts on the best method for migrating the C drive data over to the new SSD??
 
Salud all!