Replacing HD’s

[Mr. Torture]

I have an older PC, custom built by PC Audio labs. I think it’s around 13 years old.

I would like to upgrade to solid state drives, do you think it’s worth it? Or should i just replace the whole PC?

Thanks in advance!

Edited Thursday at 02:48 PM by Mr. Torture

[Amberwolf]

Does the computer do everything else you want?  

 

Are you looking for something other than the silence SSD drives provide?  

[mettelus]

Can you post the specs on the computer as it is now? That will help us a lot. If that computer has all spinners in it, you will see a major improvement just from swapping out the O/S drive. Samsung's Magician software will run clones easily, and for an O/S drive 500GB is more than sufficient. Reason I say this is for imaging purposes (smaller they are, faster they image/restore). Swapping data drives with SSDs will give improvement, but not as noticeable as with the O/S drive unless you have massive sample libraries you use in projects (in that case you will).

I have carried forward a 3 TB HDD through 3 computers now, and it is the only HDD in my machine. I primarily use it for internal backup and download storage, but spinner drives tend to not catastrophically fail if they do go and are permanent (barring sticking a massive magnet on the disc and/or opening the enclosure). SSDs have gotten far better in this regard, but write cycles specifically will degrade longevity (so as an O/S drive they will see this... keep that in mind). SSDs primary advantage is read speed over an HDD (and the O/S drive will use this most). The only two SSDs I have had to replace (due to noticeable degradation) were both O/S drives.