Fast, small (capacity) hard drive to run Windows 8, desktop pc

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Hi,
I am looking for a pretty fast, small (capacity) and reliable hard drive to put my Windows 8 operating system on. It doesn't need to be crazy fast, but I would like quick load up and shut down times. I would be looking for it to have around 70-100 GB capacity. I would ideally like to pay less than £30 ($50) for it.
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Plenty of 60 to 64gb ssd's at the $50 price point and thats more than enough room for win8/8.1 plus several utilities.

I have a 64gb patriot pyro on one of my htpc's loaded with win8.1, anti-virus, media center add on, java, flashplayer & reader, music rippers, Windows home server software, firefox & chrome... (plus more that I probably forgot about)
And still have just over 20gb free. And even though I have it on a sata2 port, it boots just as fast as my sata3 htpc which runs the exact same software.
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Desktop. It is just so that if anything goes wrong with the operating system (which has happened multiple times in the past) I can just format then re-install the operating system without losing by 800GB worth of files. I already have a 1TB hard drive for those.
 
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Makes sense.

For fifty bucks, you could pick up a WD Blue 500 GB or a slightly larger Seagate. I don't think anyone's making mainstream drives as small as 100 GB any more, so you'd either be getting an old model or something intended for a special purpose, like my 150GB Velociraptor.

At that price point, if you're withing walking distance of a PC store just go look what's in the clearance bins with a known brand name.
 
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What sort of RPM should I be looking at?
 
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The motherboard supports both. At the minute, I have an older 160GB IDE hard drive with the operating system on it. I think it is the reason why my computer takes such a long time to load, as I used to have the OS on the 1TB drive, and it booted pretty quickly. The 1TB drive with all my files on it is SATA.
 
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Plenty of 60 to 64gb ssd's at the $50 price point and thats more than enough room for win8/8.1 plus several utilities.

I have a 64gb patriot pyro on one of my htpc's loaded with win8.1, anti-virus, media center add on, java, flashplayer & reader, music rippers, Windows home server software, firefox & chrome... (plus more that I probably forgot about)
And still have just over 20gb free. And even though I have it on a sata2 port, it boots just as fast as my sata3 htpc which runs the exact same software.
 
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