OS on SSD?

tomparker95

tomparker95

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Hi all, was thinking about saving up a little longer (im on a budget build) to buy a fairly bog standard SanDisk 64GB SSD to have alongside a 2TB HDD which I will be ordering later on.


2 questions, im only spending about £450 on the whole build so would it better spending the money on another component or is the SSD a good idea?

Secondly, is it easy putting the OS on the SSD, and will it make a big difference speed wise?


PC hasn't been built yet, im gradually buying my parts bit by bit so it will take a couple of months but im looking forward to the challenge, and no doubt will be on here fairly often :D


Specs im going for (at the moment)

i3 3220
Radeon HD7850
2TB WD Caviar Green
Gigabyte Z77N Mobo
OCZ OCZ500MXSP-UK PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium

Not too sure on what RAM
Already got the disk drive



Thanks!
 
I have a sandisk 128gb ssd, i would say its definitely worth it. Sandisk are rather cheap, mine was £50. But by no means are they horrendous. I know that lack a fair amount in write speed but are only slightly lacking in read compared to other more expensive ssds. Since, like me, you only really need to boot windows of it, write speed shouldnt be too much of a problem.

As long as you change the drive mode to ahci in bios the ssd will be at the best it can be. My only gripe is that the sandisk ssds do not come with the nice software that samsung and other brands give.

I take it you're doing a fresh install of windows?


Also, it may be tight, but you may be able to stretch to an i5 3570k on that budget.
 
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