What's a the Latest Cost-Effective, Robust But Good SSD Drive for Simple Office Use?

[Alvin777]

Hello Mac and Windows friends,


What's the latest (2022 model?), cost-effective most robust/durable (long or has the longest warranty?) but good/decent SSD drive for simple office use to upgrade to from the current hardrive (browsing with lots of tabs, puzzle games after work, productivity suites like word processing and light photo enhancement (not editing) and few more than a decade old 3D games like old 3D strategy games or old 3D RPG games after work, about 300GB to 500GB is sufficient)?

Thank you in advance for recommending the SSD brand and model.



God bless, Rev. 21:4

 

[Slartibart]

To recommend some SSD for internal use it would be necessary to know how your current hard drive is connected? Or what internal connections are available?

To recommend some SSD for external use, which external connectors are available?

What storage size has your current HD? How much is occupied/is that amount sufficient for your needs? E.g. current internal 1Tb SSD are reliable and not really much more expensive than 500Gb - the important bit is the connector you need.

 

[Alvin777]

To recommend some SSD for internal use it would be necessary to know how your current hard drive is connected? Or what internal connections are available?

To recommend some SSD for external use, which external connectors are available?

What storage size has your current HD? How much is occupied/is that amount sufficient for your needs? E.g. current internal 1Tb SSD are reliable and not really much more expensive than 500Gb - the important bit is the connector you need.

Hi. These are the free/available internal slots:

4 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors (No Support for RAID and “Hot Plug” functions)

1 x PCI Express x1 slot
2 x PCI slots

Current storage capacity is 300+GB (for external backup, File History backup which is also a hardisk type, via USB is 500GB). If 1TB SSD won't be a problem being backed up by 500GB (it erases old backups), 1TB is alright too. All external USB slots are taken.

 

[Slartibart]

SATA III is compatible to SATA II - which means a SATA III SSD will run roughly at half the speed it could when connected to II.

Here is a quick search on Amazon - I would recommend Samsung, Sandisk or Western Digital - I have used and use these and had no problems - but there are others like e.g. Kingston. Please check yourself for the 1TB - you’ll see that the price doesn’t linearly increases to the storage capacity. 🤓

To maximise speed you could get e.g. a SATA III PCIe adapter plus a suitable M.2 SSD like a Samsung 980 - but it seems overkill for your requirements, so just for the protocol I leave that there. 🤜🤛

The Woah!-effect when switching to an SSD on SATA II when coming from a HD on the same bus is impressive enough IMHO. 😀
You're in for a treat! 🎇🍾🎉