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    SSD question.

    I'm looking to get an ssd when I upgrade my PC soon. Obviously they are quite expensive coming in at £90 odd for 60gb.

    What I wanted to know is, how hard is using a 60gb ssd? Is it too small?

    I just wanted to know. I'm happy to spend the extra for a 120gb drive, but wanted to know would the money spent on the extra capacity be better spent on other components or is the capacity the best place to put it?

    I could fit my steam files all into a 120gb drive plus the OS and a few basic programs, whereas no chance with a 60gb one.

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    Re: SSD question.

    Quote Originally Posted by Doherz View Post
    I could fit my steam files all into a 120gb drive plus the OS and a few basic programs, whereas no chance with a 60gb one.
    I think you just answered your own question
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    Re: SSD question.

    yeah i think 120GB is the sweet spot at the moment

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    Re: SSD question.

    Keep thinking about an SSD, are there any 120GB ones for under £150 that are worth having? Think I have SATA 2 (6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports)

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    Re: SSD question.

    Quote Originally Posted by Flibb View Post
    Keep thinking about an SSD, are there any 120GB ones for under £150 that are worth having? Think I have SATA 2 (6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports)
    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120gb...rce-controller

    Review:

    http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-ve...-ssd-review/13

    I guess this would be an ok buy but given you double the possible speed and half the size for an extra 30 odd quid, i would say its worth it. I only looked on scan though, im sure you might have a few options if you widen your horizons.

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    Re: SSD question.

    Quote Originally Posted by Flibb View Post
    are there any 120GB ones for under £150 that are worth having?
    Kingston 128GB for £149-13 ?

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    Re: SSD question.

    I would avoid any of the SSDs with a SandForce controller:

    http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...34nm-test.html

    It seems many of the newer OCZ SSDs have throttling enabled:

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...php?62-Storage

    I would go with either a Crucial or Intel SSD.

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    Re: SSD question.

    Yeah tbh I've been looking at the m4. Does the extra performance in games justify the extra price?

    Cheers for all the replies guys.

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    Re: SSD question.

    Working with a 60GB drive these days is going to be a case of micro-managing...

    I adopted SSD pretty early and went initially with 2 x 64GB drive in RAID0 for windows and apps....that never worked out and I had to keep all games and even a few apps on another drive.

    Even now that I have 2 x 128GB and 2 x 80GB in here, my games partition gets heavily micro-managed but the system array has enough room to breath that I can actually have Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and all my apps loaded onto the 256GB array with room to spare.

    You just need to assess your needs and start micro-managing that space!
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    Re: SSD question.

    Quote Originally Posted by Doherz View Post
    Yeah tbh I've been looking at the m4. Does the extra performance in games justify the extra price?

    Cheers for all the replies guys.
    The m4 is what I just ordered (256GB) - the best price I found the other day was Amazon - shop around they are up and down all the time.

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    Re: SSD question.

    The m4 is a great drive. But like said above be patient as the prices jump up and down all the time.

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