Best cheap small OS drive

Skeeter · 4 Mar 2011 at 12:00

Im looking to replace my OS drive on my PC. The drive only has Windows 7 on it, all my games and data is on separate drives, so it only needs to be small. Theres a whole bunch for around £30. Any recommendations?

Philtor · 4 Mar 2011 at 12:12

I was using the F4 prior to changing to a SSD and it's a great drive. Highly recommended.

Tediore · 4 Mar 2011 at 12:15

If it's just for Windows, and you can afford it, a 64GB SSD would do you quite nicely. About £95 on here.

If you're just after a standard SATA drive, you may as well get a 500GB or 1TB drive - £33 - £40-ish, because a 160GB is £30 anyway. You don't need the space yet, but if you partition it, it could be useful for backing things up and you can still have Windows on its own partition.

Duke · 4 Mar 2011 at 12:24

Get the Samsung F4 320GB, its very quick.

jbloggs · 4 Mar 2011 at 12:28

320GB Samsung Spinpoint F4 is what you want...

Skeeter · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:33

I have a server for backups, and 3TB of other drives in my PC for games and data, so i'm not short on space. Ill look at the F4. Cheers