Windows 7 and SSDs

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Hi, I'm thinking of putting in an SSD hard drive to run windows 7 on. Possibly a game or two, not sure yet. What size should i get (forget the games for now) and also could someone perhaps link a good SSD they know will server my purpose. Thanks in advance for any response =]
 
Not too bothered if im honest. I learned my lesson to always go for quality when i built my first pc lol, was a pile of junk that thing :P
 
87dtna said:
pfft, forget intel SSD's they are overpriced and have slow write speeds.
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1. They have very fast write speeds.

2. An intel with 20 less gigs is $100 cheaper. How do you think $100 for 20gb isn't overpriced?


With hibernate off, I have a little over 20 gigs left with win7, all programs (including flash cs4), and a few gigs of music. Not sure how big your games are but that could help you decide how big you need. You can also use the mklink command to separate different parts of games or your steam games between an hdd and your ssd, since I assume WOW is a huge game.
 
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Yeah, wow and all the expansion packs probably takes up about 25gb now. (my brother installed of them on my computer at one time. it took 20gb out of my hdd and i beat him up, and made get rid of them for me :D)
 
Flaring Afro said:
1. They have very fast write speeds.

2. An intel with 20 less gigs is $100 cheaper. How do you think $100 for 20gb isn't overpriced?
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Can you not read?

Intel-
Sequential Access - Read up to 250MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 70MB/s

OCZ-
Sequential Access - Read up to 270MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 200MB/s

:rolleyes:

What in the hell are you talking about 20 less gigs?

Are you referring to the 80gb drive? Thats $300, when the 120gb OCZ is $370...so for $70 more you get 40 more GB and much faster transfer rates.

Here's the 80gb intel-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...167023&cm_re=intel_SSD-_-20-167-023-_-Product

And here's the 120gb OCZ vertex turbo-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...27470&cm_re=ocz_vertex-_-20-227-470-_-Product

And actually the regular non-turbo is only slightly slower, is the same price but has a $50 MIR...so $320 for 120gb.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227395
 
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^ I was referring to the overpriced 60gb link you had. An intel 40gb is incredibly cheaper. In the real world there isn't much of a difference either, especially considering the bottleneck on most ssds is the cd reader/download speeds with normal use. OCZ makes good ssds but so does intel, and most people don't want to spend $360 on a ssd :rolleyes:
 
Whaaaa? The 40gb intel is a piece of CRAP

Sequential Access - Read: up to 170MB/s
Sequential Access - Write: up to 35MB/s
 
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