I would go for more RAM. 16gb is ok but the more ram you have the better off you will be. It is pretty cheap these days.
Ditto on ALL of this. Personally, I favor Dell Precision Workstations, T5810, from Dell's Outlet store. Yesterday they send me an email saying, "40% off, sale ends soon", but didn't mention a date. If you want to look into this, I'd suggest CPU of Xeon e5-1620 or better... current discount price on one is about $675.
I torrent like crazy 10gb on a ssd per day for 2 years, running fine 100% life left, my swap file is there aswell and only got 4gb ram so it gets used ( can only use 32bit version for my dev stuff) Ssd is fine dont worry about then.
Thanks for posting this. I thought the limitations of an SSD applied to the early generation units and they had this solved for the current models.
In many cases, the opposite is true! Many early models were discovered in hind-sight to have been "overengineered" and have longer life than current ones. Still, you should be able to use any modern SSD for 10 years without fear of wearing out its writes. If you're really concerned about longevity, there are a few SSDs with 10-year warranty. (New SSDs today have a warranty of "____ TB written"... which may be the equivalent of only 300-1000 write cycles. In one early torture test, an Intel X25-V had gone "40,000 write cycles" and was still performing without fail when the test was abandoned.)
I have the cheapest 2 laptops I can buy so long as they have 8G ram, Have 17" Acer and 15" Toshiba, 17" for charting and 15" platform, then 15" Toshiba for backup and anything else. I never have found in past 29 years that speed or extreme fast internet speed matter that much but Ram most important. Each year I buy a fresh 3 laptops and donate the others. I usually keep couple laptops in reserve as I haul them to Starbucks or wherever and break. My days of buying the best as way over, never will buy again are HPs, always overheating. I have found putting too many apps drains CPUs plus always chance of virus etc.
I found the old Toshiba laptops would overheat. Had less to do with the apps load and more a symptom of poor ventilation and fan placement.
Early Gens could only do 1000 blanks to then write data on, before the logic gates fail, theyd mark them as faulty and keep going until there is no spare space left. Modern day SSDs are 100,000 blanks average, which is huge and no longer an issue. Most people upgrade 3 to 5 years, so not a worry at all with that time scale, hammer it away. I have a normal HD 2gb but stop off it as much as possible, too damn slow.