240GB Sandisk Extreme for OS and other stuff including Uplay and Origin.
240GB Crucial M500 for Steam.
Originally started off with just a 120GB OCZ (which failed like it's replacement) and it just wasn't big enough.
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240GB Sandisk Extreme for OS and other stuff including Uplay and Origin.
240GB Crucial M500 for Steam.
Originally started off with just a 120GB OCZ (which failed like it's replacement) and it just wasn't big enough.
I have one SSD (250GB Samsung 840 EVO) along side 2 HDDs.
I store mainly games and things I want to go fast on the SSD, unfortunately it's not big enough to fit my OS on :(
If you just want to put the games you are currently playing on there you can use "Steam Mover" (first link on google) program to quickly move games between drives, it's so useful!
I just can not bring myself to trust SSD's in raid currently to do that otherwise i would have a bunch of them doing the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by DR
But to answer the question
Desktop
512GB MX100 main drive for O/S and Apps
3TB WD for Games
Dell D630
256GB Samsung 830pro {use to be in my desktop}
HP Laptop
256GB M4 - use to be in the D30 till i did a side grade
I might treat the HP to a new 512GB MX100 and upgrade one of the other laptops in the house >_<
Just one 240 gig vertex 3 for primary games and Os with 1 tb game drive and 2 tb as data/back up drive. Tempted to add a 512gb mx100 drive to it as a game drive to free up space on my primary ssd.
128GB Samsung 820 in my netbook (that sits in a closet running VPN and stuff) this is my oldest running SSD!
256GB PCI-E in my Work Machine (rMBP)
256GB Crucial M4 in my PC for Windows
512GB Crucial MX100 in my PC for gaming
256GB Sandisk in my Media PC
I switched to a 250GB 840 EVO SSD and I did feel initially more conscious of space coming from a 500GB regular hard drive but it proved absolutely fine once I had flushed out old data that I didn't even use (completed games, music I had gone off of, videos I had watched). I used about 80-5% of the drive with Windows 7 installed and a fair amount of music/ videos/ work files, as well as around 5-6 games.
Just switched from a 250GB HDD to 256GB SSD.
256GB Samsung 830 I picked up for £99 last year (was a great deal at the time).
I think you can get by with 128 but for me 256 is the current sweet spot with a couple games installed (50GB left).
I have recently upgraded to 2 256GB 850 Pros in RAID 0, that is pretty overkill.
I used to use a 256GB SSD for All OS and Programs and a couple of games I was actually playing, had lots more on HDD, but they were games I did not play as much, if at all, so 256GB was easily enough!
128GB would be enough for OS and Programs with maybe one game, depends what you are using it for =)
256Gb Samsung 840 as my OS Drive, an old OCZ Vertex 120Gb for my programs and apps, 480Gb OCZ Revo 3 x2 PCI card for my games. All of my media is stored on my server which reduces the need for internal storage on the PC.
We have been running them for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by DR
Our VDI hosts are running 4 x OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 960Gb in a raid 0 setup and our VSI hosts are using kingston ssd's for flash accel via our netapp array.
"I'm curious, for all of you people out there running with SSD drives, what size do you use?"
A 128GB Samsung 840Pro as system drive, a 500GB Samsung 840 for my Steam install and some other games and an old 120GB SSD (my previous system drive, a Samsung 830 I think) I've not decided what to do with.
"What do you think is an ideal size for an SSD?"
For what use? For a system drive in a multi-drive setup, I think 128GB is perfect. Plenty space for the O/S and all your programs. For other things, who knows.
"Is bigger always better? or do you consider cost per gigabyte etc...?"
For a storage drive, bigger is obviously almost always better. For any other use, where space requirements are limited and definitive, the right size is the correct size.
I have a 250GB Samsung 840 evo. I mostly just use it for my OS and games, but I threw a couple of programs I use all the time/have on startup on there too. I supplement it with a 1TB hard drive.
I'm liking it a lot in terms of boot speed (and the fact I can actually use my computer without waiting a minute or so after it loads onto the desktop.)
Im running a 128gb at the moment but im planning to add a 256gb soon another samsung
I have 2 crucial SSD's, an M4 128GB and and M500 250GB. Ideal for me is now 250GB, 512 is still too costly.
I got a toshiba 128gb as boot + application, seem ok so far
Running a 240gb SSD for OS / apps and game installs and a 2TB HDD for music / video / files. Works ok for me.