Question Should I replace my HDD with an SSD?

[Calache]

So I've got a laptop for 2 years now which worked completely fine until 2 months ago.
Then, some problems occured. Every time I restarted my PC, opening it back up would make a lot of other programs go corrupt, and i would need to reinstall Windows many times.
What I thought was ''alright, then i will just put my pc on sleep instead of shutting down." which worked for a while, but every now and then, blue screens would occur which would in turn, corrupt even more files, almost everytime including the programs which were open at the time when the bluescreen happened.
My only resolve I can think of is replacing my HDD with another one which i have laying in my house, but i could also get an SSD and use the HDD as an external drive.
Is that a good idea?

 

[USAFRet]

The only reason to not change to a SATA III SSD is budget.

Samsung 870 EVO, and reinstall your OS.

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[geofelt]

You will be amazed at the difference in every day performance if you convert to a ssd.

That said, I wonder if the drive is your recurring issue.
Possibly you have a software issue.

Regardless, replacing with a ssd would be my first thing to do to eliminate the drive as a the problem.

 

[fzabkar]

Examine the drive's SMART report with a tool such as CrystalDiskInfo.