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Hi there
to anybody reading this -- SSD'S ARE PERFECTLY RELIABLE -- I don't know wherever that stupid Old Wives tale came from -- ALL the current models are not only decently cheap but perfectly reliable. They are just as good as (or better than) spinners and are much more rugged too -- no moving parts etc -- but as with all sensitive equipment don't deliberately drop them on the floor.
Samsung 840's will do just fine. They can be partitioned and formatted via standard windows commands -- no defrag necessary - and in any case don't do it.
There's so many advantages to using SSD's especially for the OS and applications that once you've started using them you'll wonder why you never switched before.
@alphanumeric -- heat isn't always less with solid state devices -- especially with the higher capacity devices -- if it were true ask yourself why a CPU - also a solid state device - needs a Heat sink and often a sizeable one at that.
An SSD does actually use less power but it can get warm too -- I've got a Windows to Go (W8) system installed on an external SSD which I boot up from a USB 3 slot. After a bit of use the disk will get slightly warm and that's normal -- just basic physics.
A small laptop HDD has a bit of "Self cooling" since it's got rotating parts so the amount of heat generated by both these devices *could* be about the same -- depends on how much Disk usage is being continuously required by your OS and what you are running on it.
Cheers
jimbo