I got a Samsung SSD 500 GB, but I wish I had held out for the 1 TB since modern programs now are space hungry and they tend to pile up.

Samsung do a nice disk cloning software that will clone an entire disk and it's partitions.

I cloned my drive with Macrium Reflect the free edition. It worked perfect and booted 1st try.

Yup, I am using 4 Samsung EVOs SSDs and they work like a charm.

In my laptop (an MSI GT72S gaming laptop with 48GB of RAM) I use a Samsung PCI NVMe 950 for my boot drive and a Mushkin 1TB SSD for my audio. The Mushkin would be fine as a boot drive too. Both are fast but the Samsung is in a class by itself, routinely hitting read speeds of 2000mbs and higher. It's stupid fast. Windows boots in about three seconds, no kidding. I run Sonar from my boot disk as well. I would never go back to spinning platters. 
 
The laptop is no slouch either, with a 4 proc Intel i7-6820HK CPU. It's my work machine (and I really do need all that power) and my play/music machine. I use it for mixing, but not recording since my interface is a firewire box and this laptop doesn't have firewire.

Samsung 850 Pro.
10 year warranty. A bit pricey, but well worth it. No one else warrants their drives for that long.
I'm using a 500GB for C: (OS and software), and a 1TB  for E: (projects and samples). Totally rocks.

Went with a Samsung 850 for under $100... cloned just the windows OS partition from my original C drive, and now boot from the SSD... pretty quick, I must say (ala Ed Grimley)
Haven't had a chance to see if it improves Sonar performance, but looking forward to good results.  
 
Thanks all for your recommendations and assistance.