Best (decent, cheap) 120gb SSD for my new system?

[miceormen]

Hi all

Per the title. Just got a 3570k, Giga D3H, 7850 and its all being brought down by my woefully slow hard drives..

Also, will 120gb be enough for Windows + Office + Basic stuff + Steam games (CS:GO, TF2 etc.) + BF3 + Farcry 3 (when it comes out)?

-- Or can I install the less important applications (Office ) on the hard drive...

Clueless, as ever.

Cheers

 

[Robbiec053]

120gb is plenty of space as a program drive in my opinion.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £89.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC128B/WW) £89.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £83.99
Total : £273.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[miceormen]

Cool. Anything wrong with the cheaper Vertex 2E:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-048-OC&groupid=1657&catid=2101&subcat=2103 ?

 

[Robbiec053]

Cool. Anything wrong with the cheaper Vertex 2E:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-048-OC&groupid=1657&catid=2101&subcat=2103 ?

It's only SATA-II which means you'd get much slower speeds when compared to the faster SATA-III drives which your motherboard supports.

 

[miceormen]

It's only SATA-II which means you'd get much slower speeds when compared to the faster SATA-III drives which your motherboard supports.

Ah, but, if the maximum read / write of the best commercially available *PCI-E* (which i understand to be the faster interface) SSDs are only 8 or 900 MB/s.. Isn't this a bit like buying a gigabit switch for home networking?

Or am I mixing bits and bytes again..?

 

[Antowns]

I install Steam on a separate hard drive then the games are auto downloaded the folder on that drive so no fiddling with paths ect. It's certainly a cheaper alternative.