OCUK's special offer on SSD's

ChrisLandin · 21 Jan 2010 at 15:07

Right Im seriously tempted to buy one of these today and get myself a brand new copy of windows 7! I was thinking about using this as a boot drive and for adding a few key apps like office etc, my question is how much space would the os take up?? I honestly have no idea!

Also could some of you guys out there who already own these give me an idea of what sort of things you have stored on them?

Cheers

macca672 · 21 Jan 2010 at 15:14

according to the windows site

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

that said I believe my windows install (64bit) was only around 14gb, guessing it depends on what features you have on at install, hibernation etc

ChrisLandin · 21 Jan 2010 at 15:34

Cheers Macca, so if the os is like 20 gig and i want to put office on it to what will that leave maybe 35gb? What other apps would you recomended to put on?

macca672 · 21 Jan 2010 at 15:43

I dont know tbh as I dont use office, but when I get my 120gb SSD next week I will be installing all the apps I use most frequently and games, borderline and once in a while used apps will go on my HDD.

work out which apps you use the most and put them on, imo no point putting stuff on there you dont use very often as its just taking up space

ChrisLandin · 21 Jan 2010 at 15:49

Cheers mate, thanks for the help. Im gonna get meself one and do a fresh install of my system and get it spring cleaned early ready for the coming year. Many thanks

Zarf · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:02

My 80GB drive is enough for windows, apps, my current years uni docs and around 5 big game installs.

I keep all my media on my NAS though (Photos, Music, Videos, older documents)

ChrisLandin · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:07

What apps have you got on it?

Jeeva · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:32

Related note, if anyone is giving opinions, would anyone recommend the Intel X25-m 80GB model over this?

Extra 20GB would be nice, 60£ is also good.

RichIbizaSport · 21 Jan 2010 at 18:06

argh im so tempted by this deal.... must..... resist.....

AMDPower · 21 Jan 2010 at 18:54

what special deal, am i missing something here?

macca672 · 21 Jan 2010 at 19:00

AMDPower said:
what special deal, am i missing something here?

http://91.151.218.11/showthread.php?t=18105087

The B.A. · 22 Jan 2010 at 13:52

Does this drive support the trim function?

no_1_dave · 22 Jan 2010 at 20:14

The B.A. · 22 Jan 2010 at 20:35

no_1_dave said:
yes

Thank you...

mod1fied · 22 Jan 2010 at 20:55

Does anyone know what FW version these come with and whether they support the 1.5 update?

Avezius · 22 Jan 2010 at 21:01

can anyone confirm the cache for this model please?

ocuk says 32mb, several other (more expensive) retailers specifying 64mb.

Either there are two very similar flavours of the drive or its the same drive & someones description is incorrect!

Thanks
Dan "very tempted"

Mithent · 23 Jan 2010 at 13:37

macca672 said:
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

that said I believe my windows install (64bit) was only around 14gb, guessing it depends on what features you have on at install, hibernation etc

Also, I'd definitely leave some extra space for future updates and service packs etc. on the Windows partition, as well as for programs that silently install things there. Back with Windows 2000 I thought I'd keep a separate Windows partition with only enough space for the OS, and was regretting that when Windows Update kept failing due to lack of space.

That said, you could just move some programs off that drive if it became a problem in the future (I was struggling to do that because the partition itself was so small).