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Top left - old Wd 160GB I found in our server room
Top right - old Seagate 300 I had laying around
Bottom left - 1.5TB Deathstar borrowed from server room.
Bottom right 128MB Crucial

The newer big drives are pretty competitive for media, but the SSD really blows them away on all fronts. Except obviously $ per GB.

Edit: One of the spinning drives is on the Gigabyte SATA controller, not the Intel one - but not sure which and cant be arsed to rip apart the computer to figure it out.
 
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nikebee said:
There should be very little heat, if any.
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Sadly they do produce heat, and in the closed space of a lappy, they can get very warm :(

Don't mention moving parts or lack of, as the pc is full of power consuming non moving, heat producing..........nedd i go on?
 
what these need is a enclosure from the likes of Zalman to passively cool it so you can just rest it at the floor of the case and forget about it.
 
photoshop said:
what these need is a enclosure from the likes of Zalman to passively cool it so you can just rest it at the floor of the case and forget about it.
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Silent 120mm fan in front of your HDD bays, use an AKASA 2.5" SSD mounting bay (which holds 2 SSDs in one traditional 3.5" bay) and job done.
 
I don't get why people are interested in the 128 over the 64GB.

In my opinion 64GB is plenty big enough for an OS and applications. The speed difference between 128 and 64GB is pretty irrelevant, especially when coming from a rotational disc. User data can live on rotational media. Given than we can expect price/GB to fall pretty quick in coming years I think the best thing to do is by a 64GB now to get the immediate advantage of running an OS of SSD... then in a year or two, when SSD are much cheaper think about moving more data onto an SSD platform.
 
Windows ~ 30-40gb

Steam + games soon fills it up

plus the 128 is faster




I had a hard enough time keeping my size down on a 2x74gb raid 0 raptor setup
 
well i've managed to get
windows 7
MS Office (full install)
Adobe photoshop, Illusrtator
Nero
and 10+ other apps

and i've got about 25gig free on the 64gig drive.
 
That's a fresh install though, we all know how much the Windows directory etc expands over time. Frankly I'd be concerned at the longevity of any Windows 7 install using less than 30-40GB, which is 50% of your space gone straight away.

My Oblivion directory is 12GB last time I checked (mods, etc), Steam is probably at least that, etc. It all mounts up.
 
256GB has just been dispatched :D WOOT WOOT! price has been bumped up to £390.43 :eek: not going to go raid 0 untill the price drops back down. :( Didn't have enough cash to order 2 at once.
 
My Vista install... dating from launch whenever that was, is 18GB. How do you get a 30-40GB Windows install?! My Program Files is 8GB.

Okay, I don't game, but 64GB is more than enough for my OS and apps.
 
clv101 said:
I don't get why people are interested in the 128 over the 64GB. In my opinion 64GB is plenty big enough for an OS and applications...
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I agree. 128GB isn't big enough if your a serious gamer anyway, my Steam folder is ~80GB alone. Just get a 64GB and then back off user data and games to an F3 or similar.
 
clv101 said:
I don't get why people are interested in the 128 over the 64GB.
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In my case, mostly peace of mind and avoiding having to think about it being a SSD. 64GB would certainly be more than enough for OS, apps & the few games I play. But I just know I would be thinking that having the page file on it, using it for downloads, browser cache, etc would be eating into the drive's lifetime. But with a 128GB I can use it just like a rotational HDD safe in the knowledge that it will take many, many years before it hits the write cycle limit. So I'll just use it like any other drive and, when it finally does approach the limits, SSDs will either be extremely cheap or replaced by something even better.
 
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