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    SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    I have a £60 voucher to spend at Amazon on a SSD for my slightly old but faithful IP35 Pro / Q6600 desktop. Not sure which one to buy and would appreciate some suggestions. I have short listed a few:

    Corsair 60GB SSD Corsair Nova Series 2
    Corsair CSSD-C60GB Accelerator Series 60GB Solid State Drive
    OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G Agility 3 120GB SATA III 2.5 inch SSD
    OCZ OCT1-25SAT2-128G Octane S2 128GB SATA II Internal 2.5 Inch SSD

    To replace my current system disk - WD SATA II HDD, running Windows 7. Looking for stability and a performance boost.

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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    Is your mobo sata3 compatible?

    with 60GB you'll run out of space pretty quick if you install all your programs on the C drive. Go for 128gb at least.

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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    I think you should definitely consider drivers bigger than 60GB as I used one when SSDs were far more expensive and it doesn't go a long way really.

    Personally, if I had a voucher I'd add a bit of money and go for a M4 or wait as SSD deals seem to be popping up all the time at the moment. Got the samsung 830 256gb for less than £140 last week through Amazon + cashback.

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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    No sata2. I don't mind spending a bit more so long as there's not a bottleneck with the mobo.

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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    Add in £20 and get this:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-128G...1943030&sr=8-4

    I mean your MB will be a bottleneck, but surely you will upgrade that before long anyway?

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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    No plans to upgrade anything other than the system drive at this time. No reason to really.

    I ordered one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004W2JKZI/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

    Next on the list is replacing all four HDD's in my NAS with larger disks.
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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    it wont be the fastest but the octane will likely the the most reliable as its not sandforce based

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    Re: SSD for under £60 - Amazon

    good advice thats what i would go for

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