Whould you change this upgrade?

markiejt

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Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £149.49
(£129.99) £149.49
(£129.99)
OCZ Vertex Series 30GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX30G) £123.04
(£106.99) £123.04
(£106.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £40.24
(£34.99) £80.48
(£69.98)
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Spinpoint for Raid 0, for games and apps, Vertex for O/S

Case is for maximum calling and size,

Sor same price or maybe upto £400.00 could i improve this? dont need big drives already got loads of storage space... rest of spec in sig
 
Western Digital Caviar over a spinpoint. Cheaper. Well I dunno, I haven't checked this site. I am jealous of your 1200 though... :cool:
 
Looks fine, running the spinpoint in my system quiet and fast :) uses single platter. (edit not sure of the wd does)
 
I'd go for the 60GB vertex (£60 more for double the space), as O/S bloat will fill up a 30GB pretty quickly. Other than that, looks good.
 
Mines ~24GB with Vista 32. It depends how careful you are with bloat really, if you keep tabs on it 30GB should be OK, but might not have wiggle room if you ever need it for some reason.
 
Be very picky about where things install: most stuff will default to the C: drive, you'll need to be religious about changing it to something else or you'll fill the drive up in no time. A rare few programs insist on C: drive installs. Not many, but if you come across them you'll need to avoid them.

You should generally be OK. My laptop has a lot of bloat in the C: drive because it's an HP laptop, and if I don't install the HP software in the C: drive then a lot of the features won't work properly. A home-build shouldn't really have that problem.
 
Yep. You'll want to keep windows updates on anyway, you're asking for trouble without them.

Anyway, I've had my vista laptop for ~ a year so I've had plenty of time to get crap on it, I've had updates on and I've had to install stuff on the C: drive which I wouldn't normally, and it's about 24GB. If you're more careful than me you should easily be able to fit it on a 30GB SSD.
 
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