I hate SSD

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Because I know they will come down in price and disk size will rise, but every day I find myself on various websites eyeing up SSD drives, to buy or not to buy.

At present i have 2 1TB samsung drives and another 500GB drive, all 3 are mechanical and only the 500GB drive has data on it (if you exlude the windows install on 1 samsung drive).
What would be a sufficient sized SSD for running Win7 Ultimate 64bit bearing in mind I have all this unused space for my data and games.
Also would I be able to run XP mode of one of the mechanical disks (and any other virtual machines).
 
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I would say a 64GB is an absolute minimum for Win7 64bit

I recently built a new system and have installed just a few programs and i am up to 31GB used already (no page file either)

AFAIK,
XP mode in Virtual PC needs to be run from the OS drive
 
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Anyone know whats round the corner for SSD, I could buy today or should I hold out for anything that coming out in the very near future
 
I've got a 30GB drive, and it fits Windows, iTunes, office, Sibelius 5, and Firefox with 5GB to spare. Cost about £60 and really speeds things up.
 
I'd say wait. The longer you wait the better

I made the jump recently to a 64gb. Awesome drive but now I've had a solid state I can't go back to a platter disc

no one does
 
rgallie said:
Anyone know whats round the corner for SSD, I could buy today or should I hold out for anything that coming out in the very near future
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all the major players are releasing new products very soonso i would wait at least until the end of Feb... but tbh a c300 64gb at about 80 quid... you cant go wrong. You will im guessing get 100gb for 100 quid on the next lot.
 
There's no point waiting, the price drops and size increases you want wont be around for a long while. As soon as you do get one you'll wonder why you never bought one sooner.

MW
 
Well the drives based on 25nm should be here in the next couple of months, which will be the next major step forward. The 25nm process allows around 85% more storage per chip, in principle, so the main leap forward will be in price per Gb.

There is also a new controller from sandforce, which looks to offer very good performance.
 
rgallie said:
Because I know they will come down in price and disk size will rise, but every day I find myself on various websites eyeing up SSD drives, to buy or not to buy.

At present i have 2 1TB samsung drives and another 500GB drive, all 3 are mechanical and only the 500GB drive has data on it (if you exlude the windows install on 1 samsung drive).
What would be a sufficient sized SSD for running Win7 Ultimate 64bit bearing in mind I have all this unused space for my data and games.
Also would I be able to run XP mode of one of the mechanical disks (and any other virtual machines).
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I know how you feel i have the cash for 128Gb now but want to wait see what comes in the near future and also see if that brings the cost of the current drives down a bit so guess im going to wait a while see what happens.
 
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Well the drives based on 25nm should be here in the next couple of months, which will be the next major step forward. The 25nm process allows around 85% more storage per chip, in principle, so the main leap forward will be in price per Gb.

There is also a new controller from sandforce, which looks to offer very good performance.
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Aren't new Intel SSDs supposed to offer SandForce SF-1200 performance at much lower cost and be released sometime next month?
 
Intel may launch its 510 "Emcrest" Series of SSDs next month rather than the previously rumored G3 SATA 3.0 Gbps SSDs. These new drives will have a 6 Gbps interface that should compliment Intel's just-released 6 Series chipsets which provide support for up to two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports.
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More here

MW
 
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