Sam
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Good people of Corsa Sport, can you tell me which manufacturer of SSDs is considered the best?
Intel
OCZ
Crucial
Patriot
Adata
Edit - forgot Crucial
[Edited on 11-07-2011 by Sam]
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Balling
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Crucial and Intel are very fast.
OCZ have a good reputation but a lot of their lower end disks are nearly as slow as normald 7200rpm HDD's.
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Whittie
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Expensivz
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Steve
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buy a mac
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ajscorsa
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I'm speccing up a pc im gonna use for surfing the net and watching movies and stuff and I wanted it to be pretty quick I was looking at this SSD
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/40gb-intel-320-series-25-sata-3gb-s-ssd-mlc-flash-read-200mb-s-write-45mb-s-3700-iops-oem
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Sam
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I would get an 80GB minimum if I were you.
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ajscorsa
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Why 80gb min I really wont be using the pc for anything other than films and surfing the net, there wont be anything getting stored on the SSD really.
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Sam
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No idea what OS you are planning on using, but Windows 7 requires about 20GB of space for installation.
That's already half your drive gone, and don't forget although it's advertised as a 40GB drive it's technically less than that.
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ajscorsa
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Didnt realise 7 was as much as that. never really noticed lol. Yes when you put it like that 80gb would but about spot on, cheers
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Rob_Quads
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FusionIO
I've done a Windows 7 install that took less than 20GB on my Revo without tweaking it in any way.
Make sure if you get a SATA III SSD you have a motherboard with SATA III
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Sam
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32-bit is about 16/17GB IIRC, 64-bit is definately 20GB.
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ajscorsa
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it'd deffo be 64-bit id be using aswell.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
32-bit is about 16/17GB IIRC, 64-bit is definately 20GB.
x64 win7, 12.9GB.
As for SSD, Intel - never had an issue with one and performance is spot on!
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Sam
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements
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Balling
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements
Required space is not the same as actual footprint I would presume!?
As for the Intel 320 series linked above, that's a proper fast drive. Have heard nothing but good stuff about Intel SSD's.
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Rob_Quads
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Correct - There is no space checking in Windows 7 and the 20GB is the recommended requirement but that does not mean it will take that much.
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Balling
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
Make sure if you get a SATA III SSD you have a motherboard with SATA III
Will the SSD not still work on a SATA II motherboard, just at reduced speed?
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
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Will the SSD not still work on a SATA II motherboard, just at reduced speed?
It will but then you are paying for something you can't use. If you get a SATA II motherboard then just go for the ones that are SATA II as they are many that are now hitting the limit of the interface.
Yes you could argue that if you upgrade in the future then you will then get the gain but IMO the money you save now would be better spent when you next upgrade as the tech is changing massivly every year.
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Rob R
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I've got this one in my Vaio http://www.amazon.co.uk/OCZ-Vertex-2-5-inch-Internal-Solid/dp/B003NE5JCE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310402837&sr=8-1
Chucked that in with 4gb of ram and it goes really well.
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Same one as Rob ^. Installed on my Win 7 machine and used for system files only. Boots up quicker than my router 
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Balling
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Heard of a lot of reliability issues with the Vertex 2 disks. Though they are supposed to be quite snappy.
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Dom
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What do you lot do regarding the page file - Keep it on the SSD, shift it to a HD or disable it completely (in a situation you have more than enough ram to cover)?
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_Allan_
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I've just left it on the SSD. Noticed no issues so far but also have 4GB of DDR3.
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
32-bit is about 16/17GB IIRC, 64-bit is definately 20GB.
I had the x86 version of Windows 7 on an 8GB SSD years back - was a very minimal installation with no updates. 20GB is a reasonable quote.
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob R
I've got this one in my Vaio http://www.amazon.co.uk/OCZ-Vertex-2-5-inch-Internal-Solid/dp/B003NE5JCE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310402837&sr=8-1
Chucked that in with 4gb of ram and it goes really well.
goes really well
its not an AR50 with Arrow Exhaust and uprated reed valves
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