SSD for office workstation?

[Cruiza]

I'm building two new computers for my dad's CPA/accounting office. The computers will be on a wired network, and most if not all critical data is stored on a dedicated server. Would the user see any benefit from an SSD over a traditional HDD? If so, which one would you recommend? Stability and reliability are of utmost importance. I'm thinking a Samsung 830, Crucial M4, or Intel 330 would be the best bet, but I can't decide between them. Thoughts?

 

[drescherjm]

I'm thinking a Samsung 830, Crucial M4, or Intel 330 would be the best bet, but I can't decide between them. Thoughts?

Since you will not notice a difference in performance between any of these in most applications get the cheapest one. They are all reliable and from good companies.

 

[wkearney99]

The only benefit they'd see is a faster boot time. Day to day stuff isn't likely to show much difference. Not unless they're running apps that make heavy use of local storage. Or they had truly dog-slow local HDs. You'd probably do well to also make sure their network is configured properly and that their server isn't the bottleneck (it probably is).

 

[Cruiza]

I know next to nothing about networks, but I'm sure the server is the bottleneck as well. Unfortunately I wasn't the one who set that up, so I don't know much about it either. I'm pretty sure it has RAID 1 or some other type of mirroring setup, though. Maybe I'll see what I can figure out when I go there to set up the new machines.

 

[grambo]

SSD will improvement performance for boot, application load times and multi-tasking as well as for page file swapping. Even with large documents/spreadsheets loaded from the network, they will be cached in memory (which then might page to disk). I would grab cheap 64GB drives for OS installation, why not? Also quieter/less power consumed.