Yea, Bifop!
Two years ago SSD was expensive as hell, so it made usually only sence to use it for the system. The system usually only needs to read and not to write, so the earlier drives had not that much errors…
Yea, that Samsung drive I installed last week in my MacBook. On Mac you have to use the app “Trim” to enable some features regarding the writing process (to avoid that the same sectors will be used all the time, as far as I understand)
The 256GB SSD was at 700 EUR 2 years ago, I bought in August 2011 for 450 EUR - and now the 500GB Samsung is below 300 EUR. Still a lot of money and there are way more expensive ssds out there - but wait 2 years… In the meantime for “storage” there is no alternative for bigger regular harddrives… 2 TB or even 3 TB… I installed two 3TB WD hds to a NAS the day before yesterday - raid1 - 6TB of storage (when not in raid1) for about 250 EUR - it will took some time that this is realistic with SSD I would think…