should I hit the buy button?

[stulid]

two choices,

intel X25 v series 40gb for £85

or

crucial C300 64gb for £99inc postage, its normally £109 but I have a voucher for ten pounds off.

this is for a games pc.

 

[wozza2k]

Go for the 64GB, the extra space will help later down the line

 

[Ziggy4]

If this is going to be your only drive then you will probably need the larger capacity for installing games. Having said that I recently threw a X25-V in my laptop and (outside of benchmarks) it performs just as well as my X25-Ms for general use. Cracking little drive.

Or...if you have a decent mechanical in there anyway why not use the SSD for OS and apps and install the games to the HDD? While I do actually have my games on a second SSD, it's more to keep them separate from the boot drive than any small improvement in load times.

 

[manishpatel80]

Go for the C300 bigger and faster reads. But writes are slower, but remember a SSD have a finite number of writes before its dies, so the faster you can write to it the faster it can die.

So I say slower writes are the good.

 

[vectisitch]

can't get my head round these small drives.i'm waiting for ssd's to get bigger in size before i jump

 

[lukext]

C300, definately.

 

[aspirins]

c300, press buy

 

[R.C.Anderson]

c300 imo too, faster read, more space, and now much more money.

 

[reflux]

C300 or we'll send the boys round!

 

[reygjabla]

Intel coz it got an SSD Toolbox.

 

[coughs]

I heard soon theres going to be a massive price dump for SSD's so I would wait if I was you.