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gravesy
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8th Jun 10 at 15:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'm looking at getting a new PC from Overclockers or similar for around £600 in the next couple of months. To make it easier for myself I was going to take whatever drive they fit in it and use that as a data drive and use a SSD for the OS and programs I use most often - Illustrator, Firefox, Photoshop etc.

Question is: Should I buy the SSD now and stick it in my current PC in the mean time?

I've got a drive for OS and a seperate one for data. The OS drive is 150GB but has only 45GB of data on it which I could squeeze down to under that to get a cheaper 40GB SSD.

Next question: What drives should I avoid/go for? Looking around the £80-£150 mark.
ed
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Don't solid state drives start at the £150 mark?
John
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If you have 45gb of data just now a 40gb ssd won't be much use, you want plenty of free space on the OS drive, not filling it to capacity.
gravesy
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Don't solid state drives start at the £150 mark?


Few here in that bracket http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=910&sortby=priceAsc

quote:
Originally posted by John
If you have 45gb of data just now a 40gb ssd won't be much use, you want plenty of free space on the OS drive, not filling it to capacity.


I've got a 500GB data drive. I can move a lot of data to that but the stuff I want to load quickly like Illustrator and PS I'll put on the SSD.

 
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