Kingston 64GB SSD $149.99 -- anyone recommend?

Twist86

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Sadly for daily use till 128GB are that price I personally would wait. SSD is nice but it really wont change your life THAT much. Don't forget you will lose part of the 64GB from typical manufacture scheme 1000 vs 1024.

I mean typical game = 6-10GB
Windows 7 / Vista = 12-20GB.

So half your total is gone on the first 2 installs....I prefer all my stuff on 1 disk vs many. Still its a good value if you really have your heart set on a SSD though and don't use a lot of space.

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One thing I did read some time ago was that the SSD pretty much lasts forever but the amount of writes per cell will die fast if your active (aka downloading lots of stuff etc for example) if your this type of user id use the SSD as a primary but have all your downloads from your browser etc put ALL downloads to a mechanical hdd. This will keep your SSD fast and make it last.

I would be one of these users as over 100GB a month pass through my HDD so I would kill a SSD quickly :p
 
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Euklid

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I was looking at it just to install operating system and my web design suite of software. But for music, videos, photos I have a 500GB 7200rpm.

Currently I use only 80GB, and most of that is music and videos. So I could easily fit all my important programs on 64GB.

It says the life of this drive is 1,000,000 hours, while the OCZ Vertex series is 1,500,000 hours.
 

Drenlin

Active Member
I think a better option with SSD's is to install your OS on a fairly fast hard drive, and put the programs to want to be fast on the SSD. That'll extend its life by quite a bit, with almost the same result.
 
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