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The Great Stash   11-16-2009 at 03:01:49 AM

Right now I have a Samsung spinpoint F3 (1TB) or something like that picked out for a storage drive and I want to have a SSD just for my OS and possibly my most used applications...

Which one do you guys and girls suggest?

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rcpratt   11-16-2009 at 03:13:47 AM

Intel X25-M G2. Availability is still an issue, hunt around for awhile and you can find an 80GB for less than $250.

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The Great Stash   11-16-2009 at 04:30:10 AM

rcpratt wrote :

Intel X25-M G2. Availability is still an issue, hunt around for awhile and you can find an 80GB for less than $250.


Cool thanks! :D but isn't 80GB a little big for just the OS?

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blackhawk1928   11-16-2009 at 05:21:09 AM

80GB is big for the OS but it defeats the purpose of having an SSD if you just use it for an OS, you want applications to fit in as well, if your apps will be on a another hard drive then the only benefit an SSD will bring you is faster boot times and nothing more. Applications will open as fast as the sluggish hard drive will allow it to. So an OS+Applications is what you need on it. Data and other stuff can go on the hard drive.

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WhirledNews   11-16-2009 at 07:38:00 PM

I have a Intel X25-M G2 80GB with pretty much only Windows 7 HP installed on it right now. I still have 60GB free and it is fast, boots up in no time, I don't really plan on installing all that much on it, at least untill they get the firmware back out.

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The Great Stash   11-17-2009 at 12:59:46 AM

blackhawk1928 wrote :

80GB is big for the OS but it defeats the purpose of having an SSD if you just use it for an OS, you want applications to fit in as well, if your apps will be on a another hard drive then the only benefit an SSD will bring you is faster boot times and nothing more. Applications will open as fast as the sluggish hard drive will allow it to. So an OS+Applications is what you need on it. Data and other stuff can go on the hard drive.


Oh I see... How much does Win 7 take up alone? So I will know how much data I will have for applications....

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blackhawk1928   11-17-2009 at 03:21:41 AM

Hmm...it depends, i can't say for sure because people can have a different page file which takes up a considerable amount of space and can vary widley from computer to computer, I can't really say for sure because I already have a bunch of applications installed on mine and never really payed attention in the beginning. My guess is that its under 15GB not including page file. Plus cluster size can be a big factor, since windows has many tiny files that are only a couple kb in size, if you have large clusters then it can take up a much larger amount of space.

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The Great Stash   11-17-2009 at 04:53:39 AM

blackhawk1928 wrote :

Hmm...it depends, i can't say for sure because people can have a different page file which takes up a considerable amount of space and can vary widley from computer to computer, I can't really say for sure because I already have a bunch of applications installed on mine and never really payed attention in the beginning. My guess is that its under 15GB not including page file. Plus cluster size can be a big factor, since windows has many tiny files that are only a couple kb in size, if you have large clusters then it can take up a much larger amount of space.


Is there any advantage of having games on a SSD other than faster load screens?

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blackhawk1928   11-17-2009 at 04:58:40 AM

Nope, performane of the actuall game and its fps won't be effected but initializing and loading of the game and every aspect of loading anything will be far faster.


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