Decided to take the SSD leap - advice please!

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This seem to be a good capacity/price point - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

What would you get for sub £200?

Also, concerning Windows install & 'Program Files' - can these be copied to another drive and set as 'default' locations? Or do you have to do an mklink and move the data over?

Ideally just want my Windows install on the SSD and a folder for games.

Are there any useful links/sites which explain the best way to save space/setup SSD drives?
 
These are excellent drives, and think you'll be happy with that choice. I would however recommend you keep your apps on the SSD, and move the games to another drive. Applications will see a huge performance boost from SSD and games...meh, not so much. They will load a little quicker sure, but not worth holding your other programs back for IMO. As a compromise you could always install your favourite game of the moment on SSD and the rest on HDD.
 
Ah right, thanks. The other drive is 2x 500gb Samsung F3 Drives in RAID0 anyway.

What's the size of a W7 Pro install? Both home & work are a few months old so probably a little larger.

Also - I'm assuming it's still best to leave the page file as is? (If not - what size do you reduce it to?)
 
Fresh install is around 16GB, then a few more for applications so typically looking at around 20-something GB, so it's not going to fill up the SSD in a hurry. Regarding the pagefile, some leave it on the drive some move it off to a HDD to reduce wear level on the SSD. I'm one of the latter but you can decide for yourself. There's a thread in this forum section on the topic. Now that you mention the RAID HDDs, I'd definately shove the games on that.
 
well i would not get that drive because the write speed is slow
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Sequential writes, yes. This doesn't mean a whole lot for an OS drive. The Intel still has one of the best random writes and one of the top performers in real world benchmarks. Not bashing the Crucial either but Intel is far from a poor drive.
 
Ziggy4 said:
Sequential writes, yes. This doesn't mean a whole lot for an OS drive. The Intel still has one of the best random writes and one of the top performers in real world benchmarks. Not bashing the Crucial either but Intel is far from a poor drive.
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Indeed, Plus the quoted 150MB/s of the Crucial is a burst speed measurement, real world sustained speeds on the 64GB drive are pretty similar to the Intels 80MB/s.
 
Ziggy4 said:
Sequential writes, yes. This doesn't mean a whole lot for an OS drive. The Intel still has one of the best random writes and one of the top performers in real world benchmarks. Not bashing the Crucial either but Intel is far from a poor drive.
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Yup. And the access time, sequential read speed and random read speed are all exceptionally quick on that drive. Unless you plan on frequently moving huge single files (like movies of several GB) onto there from another source then I wouldn't worry. The drive also reaches 80MB/s or so sequential write a lot more quickly than other drives. Considering most work will be using lots of smaller files the drive should be a stormer.
 
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