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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)
 
 

I've got Sonar on a 240GB 840 EVO, quite a few vsti installed and the data on a 1TB WD Black drive...works fine.

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my last upgrade was a 240Gb SSD system drive and 2Tb SATA data drive.  Best bang for the buck, IMO.

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

Right now SSD drives are great for C: drive w/ your OS and programs on it.  500 gigs should be more than enough unless you try to put a couple of large libraries on it.  This is only true if you have a separate drive for audio (and video, if applicable).  From what I understand, an old style drive, 7200 rpm, is the best choice for audio.  If nothing else, it is a lot less expensive than a smaller SSD and, as Jim sez, fast enough for just about every project.  By the time it needs replacement, SSDs should be the replacement.
 
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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 

A good SSD brand and you are just as good as your "reliable" spindle drives.
 

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) 
 

I agree SSD for OS, conventional for multitrack recording and data makes sense. Just remember, SSDs need to be backed up too.