| twesterm said: So you've triggered my interest a bit more into this whole SSD thing. I had originally planned to just let them fall in price before I bought into one, but if the improvement is really that great I might get a small one. How big of one do I need if I just want to put Windows 7 on it? Or better yet, what would you recommend? |
Well it depends on the budget however something like
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233131
Is an exceptionally fast SSD and its pretty good if you just want to put your photos / OS / programs onto the drive and nothing more.
$235
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233125
Is more of the same but it costs $295 but offers 120GB vs 80GB and its pretty good too.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148361
Is only 64GB but it drops to $160, it has slower write but very fast read.
It depends on what you want to do with it. I personally have 47GB free from 74GB so I hardly use much space at all. Its all about which programs you want to speed up and for me its pretty much just Windows at the moment so I could have gotten away with a 40GB. Just consider the size of the programs you would want on the SSD and then put in a 50% margin for growth.
Tease.
