Best SSD for Boot Drive?

[MrJim]

you'd really have to go at it even to hammer the basic version on write longevity. Short of using it in a server you should be fine. But granted the Pro is another level and if you can afford it, def get that version.

They reviewed the 120Gb 840 over at HardOCP, and had this to say:

The reviews of two more SSDs followed as we began our testing of the TLC-powered versions of the 840. The Samsung 840 Series TLC 250GB SSD also performed well in our testing, surprising us with the performance of the TLC NAND. TLC is inherently slower in some performance metrics, particularly sequential write speed. Even the notably lower sequential write speed did not hold the 250GB 840 back from great steady state performance in our trace-based testing, winning the [H]ardOCP Editors Choice Silver Award. We did express our reservations about the speed and endurance of the smaller 120GB capacity TLC 840 SSD in this review. We took the unusual step of reserving giving the same SSD, albeit at a smaller capacity, the Silver Award due to the technical limitations of the 120GB SSD. This reduction in performance is due to markedly lower write speeds and a smaller amount of NAND onboard the SSD. The limited amount of NAND could also lead to endurance issues, with only 3.5-4 years of endurance in light usage scenarios.

4 years of light use perhaps, but using it as a scratch disk for video editing is potentially going to be quite intensive use. I'd be a bit wary of using an 840 in that situation, anyway...

[ik9000]

Well anandtech.com, who are incredibly in-depth in their testing and knowledge of these drives reckons even the 128GB 840 would last 11.7 years before the typical client user actually gets a problem - and they were pretty demanding of the SSD in defining a "typical" user. See here: http://www.ww.anandtech.com/show/645...ce-of-tlc-nand

[Mehta23]

Sorry to high jack the thread, but if i were to edit some videos, would it be better to install Vegas onto the hdd? Tbf these are homemade videos off of a cheap jvc hd cam.