Another SSD thread :)

craptakular

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I had two Samsung Gen1 I think in RAID last year and they were quick but I needed more space.

I now have a Samsung F3 1TB drive which is pretty nippy.

Now I'm thinking of one 64 GB Kingston drive for OS + Arma2 (20GB) + Office (700MB) + Bad Company2 (6.5GB).

Writing it all down it does seem to be cutting it close. There's also Arma: Arrowhead coming out which would add another 20GB, I dunno if that would make my Arma2 install obsolete.

I guess I need to be looking at the Kingston Gen2 128GB model?

How does this SSD fair in games and general OS tasks like Firefox, office, photoshop, Vegas?

The OCZ Vertex 2 50GB looks best on paper but I could'nt install many games on it, so I guess it's to small for me.
 
The good news is that I have Sata3 on my mainboard. The bad news is that I don't have £300 for one.

The kingston 128GB is £208 with all the cables and adapters. The 64GB version is £99.

Going to pop in the bank tommorrow and see how much is in there, if I can stretch for the 128GB one I will get that.

So the short of it is that the Kingston drive is very good value with pretty good performance, comparable to the Intel G2, but cheaper.

It isn't as good as the C300 or Vertex 2 but is vastly more affordable.

So in games this Kingston is going to fly? Arma2 is a texture whore and it reads a lot of HDD data. The 64GB is quite appealing if money is tight...

What would you do?

I have the 1TB for programs that I ain't bothered about speed and my steam account. The 64GB reserved for firefox, office, win7, arma2 and BC2. Thats around 50GB, cutting it close :s

Just turned of hybernation and system restore and saved 18GB :p

I'll research more tips to see if I could trim 5GB off the win7 install.
 
I'm running Win7 64 bit, I think one 64GB will be too small, I had two samsung's in raid 0 last year and 120GB was difficult to manage.

The new kingston model is the 425?, so it's better than the 325?
 
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