SSD capacity

i have a 40gb, which has Windows 7, the usually everyday apps, visual studio, etc on, and its quite full.

so the 60gb will give u abit extra for the games.
however, when you say a fair few, how many do u mean exactly ?
and what sorta games are we talking about ?

as games can now be like 10gb each, so a fair few of those and u really wont have much room :P
 
win7 plus essential apps (office, visual studio, browsers, etc) is close to filling up my 40gb OS partition.

I keep all my games on another partition because each of them is 10gig+
 
I'm similar to you, I plan on buying an 80-124 GB SSD. Better to have too much space than not enough. Should buy either this month or next.

MW2 is 10GB Crysis is bigger I thought... etc etc...
 
Currently my (Windows 7) C drive now has 50 GB in use, including 14 GB in \User (mostly Documents) - but I don't have any games on it. The disk use was higher but I've been cutting it down as I'm planning on a SSD for my next upgrade and want to see what size I can live with. Problem is most programs assume they can go on C and then use up GBytes of space on files that never get used ;-) I have to allow space for future software - and also I understand an SSD drive gets slow if it gets nearly full.

I don't want to spend too much so I think I'm limited to 60 - 100 GB sized SSDs. Also I'd like to avoid the horror stories (see http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18161522)! What have people found that's affordable, reliable, fast and under £150?
 
The OCZ Vertex 96GB looks a better deal to me, at £140 - but does anyone have experience with it? Does it meet its specs, or is there something to avoid?
 
I was crushed when my RealSSD 256GB died on day 1, so after much nailbiting waiting for the refund, opted for a not-as-neat but functional £200 hybrid setup.

  • Intel X25-V holds Win7 and program files
  • 3 x F3s in RAID0 (~350MB/s) hold games, video processing and other temp working data that benefits from fast sequentials
  • Made use of the "mount in the following empty NTFS folder" to effectively put the RAID0 games partition "on" the SSD @ C:\Games
It's not ideal but I have a ton of bays so why not :)
 
I went for a 60gb thinking it would be enough - I'm really struggling to keep space on it. Go for 100+ if you have the funds.
 
No that it matters but the 128GB has twice the write speed. that's the bit that confuses me. I am also buying at the end of the month. I'm stuck between the 124gb version and the 64gb version.

Windows 7 (20GB)
MW2 (10GB)
BC2 (10GB)
Photoshop (2GB)
NetBeans IDE (1GB)
Misc Games (15GB)


Just under 64GB... is it worth cutting it close or going for the 128gb version? Or buy a 64GB later and make it a vertex 2E... that might be best. One now for reads another later for writes.
 
imo either get a 40/60gb with a mechanical hd for games or get 128gb. I found it difficult to fit more than one or two games on a 60gb with Win 7 and a few applications, so now have a speedy but silent 320gb HD in there just for games.
 
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