Looking for a SSD boot drive

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It's my birthday in a weeks and my dad has offered to spend £200 for it. As part of a build I'm doing in december, I was considering of getting an SSD as a boot drive. 32 gb is good enough for me, but I don't know what brand to get. I heard Intel is the best, but the prices seemed a bit high. So I was wandering what SSD would be best to use for booting? £200 is the max but I would prefer it being around £100.
 
you'll probably want more than 32GB if you plan to put any games on it.

The Crucial M225 64GB drive is a good choice, even at £150. The Corsair x32 32GB drive at £115 is similarly fast and a little bit cheaper if you really don't need more than 32GB.

Both of them are based on the indilinx barefoot controller, which is what OCZ uses in their Vertex and Agility range.
 
Zarf said:
you'll probably want more than 32GB if you plan to put any games on it.

The Crucial M225 64GB drive is a good choice, even at £150. The Corsair x32 32GB drive at £115 is similarly fast and a little bit cheaper if you really don't need more than 32GB.

Both of them are based on the indilinx barefoot controller, which is what OCZ uses in their Vertex and Agility range.
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Ok, thanks. I'm a gamer but I don't really have a wide range of games, so 32 gb is enough for me. So would the Corsair be more value?
 
32gb will not be enough, you will be surprised how quicky that gets absorbed. 64gb Minimum, even that will end up becoming a tight squeeze.
 
think youre right. i just installed 7 and fair chunk was taken out of it.

ive got autocad, 3dsmax, photoshop in there and its taken up 35.9gb. space for virtual mem etc. theres not much to play with. so ditto the 60gb minimum. for me im after 120gb minimum but i cant justify the price for them right now as my spinpont is fine especially once i get the dedicated disk for Win 7
 
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