Installing an SSD to a desktop with 1 drive bay.

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#193686 20-Mar-2016 15:51

I have a All-in-one that has one drive bay with a conventional HDD running Win 8.1. In an effort to eliminate poor performance I am experimenting by ultimately replacing the HDD with an SSD. This is a home-office PC running some accounting apps, used nights and weekends only.

I have seen some articles that discuss how SSD performance degrades because of write-cycle use. Is this historical or do current SSD offerings have a more limited hardware life than HDDs?

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#1516469 20-Mar-2016 16:42

So long as you have AHCI and trim working, you will be fine. Heavy swap can cause the write amount to get higher, but the SSD's I have had die have been minimal use situations, certainly not hard constant heavy use like the OS drive in my gaming PC gets.

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#1516477 20-Mar-2016 16:56

timmmay:

Get a Samsung 850, pro is a bit longer life, but all should be fine for most people. Since they're so light and generate next to no heat if you have a spare SATA port you can duct tape it to anything you can find. Reinstall of the OS is generally best.

I have taped extra "system drive" SSDs into several older PCs - no problems with overheating, and a huge increase in real-world performance. The data stays on the slower HDD "data drive".

Just use double-sided adhesive foam tape.

EDIT: Alternatively you can buy adapters to fit TWO 2.5" drives into the old HDD drive bay.

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