SSD for Windows and BF3

[Firewood B B]

Hey everyone,

I'm thinking of buying a SSD. I was looking at 64GB SSD's. But is 64GB enough for Windows and Battlefield 3?
I'm using SATA-300 (3 Gb/s) since my motherboard doesn't support SATA-600 (6 Gb/s)

So which SSD do you guys recommend me? I have a budget of €100 - €120. I hope you can find a good one in this range of price.

Regards,
Brian

 

[rolli59]

Samsung 830 and Crucial M4 are among the most recommended drives. For OS and 1 application like BF3 64GB will work fine.

 

[Firewood B B]

Samsung 830 and Crucial M4 are among the most recommended drives. For OS and 1 application like BF3 64GB will work fine.

Will 32GB be enough for only the OS?

 

[Soda-88]

it's enough if you do all the space saving procedures (disabling hibernate, moving pagefile and system restore to mechanical drive)

i currently have fully updated windows 7 x64 ultimate installed with office 2010, photoshop cs5 and sony vegas pro 11 with 35gb of free space left (on ocz vertex 60gb) and bf3 takes less than 20gb if i'm not mistaken

just make sure you don't have temp files eating up space by cleaning them frequently via disk cleanup (same goes with graphics drivers that you have to remove manually which tend to extract to root of system drive, i.e. c:\nvidia folder that has no use once the drivers have been installed)

edit: also keep in mind to always have 10-15% space unused for garbage collection to be able to do it's job, else you will get severe performance issues over time

 

[Firewood B B]

it's enough if you do all the space saving procedures (disabling hibernate, moving pagefile and system restore to mechanical drive)

i currently have fully updated windows 7 x64 ultimate installed with office 2010, photoshop cs5 and sony vegas pro 11 with 35gb of free space left (on ocz vertex 60gb) and bf3 takes less than 20gb if i'm not mistaken

just make sure you don't have temp files eating up space by cleaning them frequently via disk cleanup (same goes with graphics drivers that you have to remove manually which tend to extract to root of system drive, i.e. c:\nvidia folder that has no use once the drivers have been installed)

edit: also keep in mind to always have 10-15% space unused for garbage collection to be able to do it's job, else you will get severe performance issues over time

I was looking at the OCZ Agility III 60GB. Will this do the job? Or should I get a Corsair Force (60GB)?

 

[rolli59]

Useful info http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/270102-32-useful-articles-part
The drives in question are compared here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-60gb-benchmark-review,3137.html pretty similar.

 

[kitsunestarwind]

I think you should save the extra and get a 120gb, windows tends to creep up in size and with BF3 being around the 20gb mark (not including room for future content) your going to run out of space really fast

 

[bruvvamoff]

I just did some research into this.
The OCZ Vertex 60GB would make a good drive for your needs. Yes 60GB is enough for OS and BF3.

 

[Firewood B B]

Best answer selected by Firewood B B.

 

[ilikegirls]

Mind you though that BF3 with all of its expansion packs is 30GB