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>>The performance gains with SSD are large. A typical mechanical drive might peak between 70-100M bytes/sec in the best-case scenario, often much lower. As mentioned above a typical SSD will reach 300M bytes/sec on SATA II and up to 500M bytes/sec on SATA III.
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>I bought two Samsung SSD drives back in the summer of 2013 and they are still zipping along fine.
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>Dmitry, assuming there are no compatibility issues, I strongly recommend the Samsung Pro SSD drives. Yes, you'll pay a few more dollars than other SSD drives, but they are very high quality and perform extremely well.
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>As for an SSD drive dying out, I've had standard laptop drives inside of 3 years. Regardless, I back up all my apps and documents and important stuff to multiple thumb drives (and my FTP server).
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>Believe me, once you've spent a week using an SSD drive, you will NOT want to go back. I used to think that a 7200 rpm drive was a big difference over a 5400 rpm drive. And then I got an SSD drive for my laptop, and was blown away.

Kevin,
Thank you for your message. About PRO, it is a bit too late. The Samsung 1 TB EVO drive I ordered has been already shipped (Amazon won't sleep). Maybe even this Saturday I will work on the change of drive (although I prefer to keep a Sabbath and not to work on Saturdays, I may consider this not work but fun :))