Haha ill open the gate then <| sep |> Any SSD will be ok and vastly superior to a mechanical harddrive , even a fast one . However , think about the other components that might bottleneck your transfers Memory cards Memory cards reader interface USB 1 , 2 , 3 , Thunderbolt . The drive interface SATA II , SATA III , M 2 , PCIExpress will offer marginal gain compared to the jump moving from mechanical drive to SSD . Also , think about your workflow . Since it is rAskphotography , you might use Lightroom . Remember to store your catalog and previews on the fast drive . For the source files RAW files speed is less critical , so you can use a big ass 6 TB mechanical hard drive , or a fast network storage . About the latter , avoid cheap NAS . You want something that can fully use an ethernet gigabit connection . some NAS aren ' t even able to do that . Yes I ' m thinking about you NetGear .