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The price is right, but I would want a bit more capacity and would always want it faster. That said if I needed to replace the HDD in my laptop today then one of these would be going in.
So, if you want more capacity and it faster, the price isn't right!Originally Posted by cordas
40GB.....it's basically an OS drive at that size but the price may be right, especially for HTPC owners.
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40GB? After install w7, couple games...
Ideal laptop drive though. £93 at SCAN atm, still £2.30/gb. £74 for a 1.5TB HDD for comparison.
What's the spiel regarding Intels low write speed again? They quote random write rather than continuous write?
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Still has been lower in the guise of the Kingston 40GB @ £70
...though why they stopped selling that is anyone's guess.
I bought one last weekend for running a few games off - pretty decent performance tbh.
Because their drives are fast where it actually matters, rather than just going for high benchmark speeds.
The Kingston value drives were rubbish from what I heard, barely faster than a HDD and slower at some things.
Not the ones based on the Intel SSDs.
I'm not even sure they claimed it was "based on"... was effectively the same thing.
I mean the V series (not including V+).
do you think its worth me buying a SAS cable for an SAS drive my uncles willing to sell me for around £20 - It will jsut be used for games and possibly a scratch disk for encoding etc.?
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
...and the original post was doubtless referring to rebadged Intel drive which was a 40gb drive (I have two of them) and was actually very good indeed (especially as it turns out you can reflash it as an intel drive to take advantage of TRIM).
One of them is in my HTPC (with about 20gb free) and one is in my wife's PC with plenty of apps installed etc with 18.9GB free (~2.6gb in program files). Space be not an issue for either PC... I stick games on the data drive since there's very little gain from running them off SSD (based on my experience with my intel 80gb SSD which is faster anyway).
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I didn't know he was referring to an Intel one, I don't know all the capacities/prices of each model.
i'd load games off a 1tb v3 ta. OS on a nice 80 or 120gb SSD thou... /me drools.
I got 2x 80gb drives atm and a data drive. so i could make do would with a 40gb.
1x 80GB SSD for me. Then a 1TB drive for all my photos, data, videos. And I put my games on the 1TB too. They're more than fast enough on that when it's the only thing being accessed.
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