Office SSD upgrade

[GRANDMAISON2194]

Alright so to start I work for a design services company and we work with AutoCAD. All of our machines are currently running HDD's and we are about to upgrade to SSD's so I have a few questions for the community. First we have about 8 people in our office so we plan on getting SSD's for all the computers so what would you guys suggest for brands/models for reliability and performance? We have about a 50/50 mix of desktop and laptops and 2.5 sata drives should work for all of them. Also we have a NAS so the SSD's will just run the OS and AutoCAD etc. so we don't need abundant space. Second what would be the best, quickest, and easiest way to clone all of our old HDD's? 

Thanks for any suggestions! I can answer more questions if needed but hopefully it should be as simple as I think.      

[Elapo]

Either samsung or Intel drives are known for their reliability and speed. Get one of the smaller 128-256GB models, if you really don't need the space.

 

Both manufacturers also have a tool that allows you to migrate all your data to the new SSD

-Intel's

-Samsung's

[TestiezMachin3]

Samsung has very reliable SSDs, I've had my 840 Pro for almost 3 years now. As for cloning HDDs, I will have to let someone else provide you with a more enterprise way to do that.

 

excuse the clipping

http://i.imgur.com/vIyda4x.jpg

 

Yes, Ive abused this SSD

[GRANDMAISON2194]

Alright so one of the guys here is saying "we have to get SSD's bigger than the HDD's already installed or the clone doesnt work" I disagree with him but hes saying thats the "ONLY" way to make it possible. There has to be a way around this could someone explain another way to clone? or will the manufacture programs clone everything no problem?

[ELSknutson]

I would Grab 8 of these 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147373&cm_re=850-_-20-147-373-_-Product

 

there a good price for the size and there fairly fast and reliable 

also the extra size will be good for future updates to programs and added software if you need. I ran out pretty fast on my 128 go SSD just with programs so the extra space is nice even though you have a NAS also as a biuness you can right it off on taxes so the extra cost really isn't as big of an issue. 

[ELSknutson]

Just now, ELSknutson said:

I would Grab 8 of these 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147373&cm_re=850-_-20-147-373-_-Product

 

there a good price for the size and there fairly fast and reliable 

also the extra size will be good for future updates to programs and added software if you need. I ran out pretty fast on my 128 go SSD just with programs so the extra space is nice even though you have a NAS

 

[brob]

SSD are essentially memory in a different package. There are numerous good manufacturers and the controllers the units use are quite mature.

 

There is no real need to install a high performance ssd. But if the budget is there, the Samsung MZ-75E250B/AM (850 EVO 250GB) is an excellent unit. The unit comes with software to move a system on hdd to the new ssd unit.

[GRANDMAISON2194]

We actually just went out and bought an 850 evo 500gb and kingwin drive cloning device. So i guess well see how things go should be plug and play