I've just ordered a new pc from PCS and am eagerly awaiting its arrival.
During my research, I looked at getting an SSD put in by PCS, but pricewise, I figured I'd hold fire and do a self install later.
I'm just wondering if anyone can give the benefit of experience on sizing an SSD drive to use as the main boot & apps drive, with everything else on normal SATA drives?
I had a little look around my office PC and current home PC for benchmark folder sizes, so I reckon I'd be looking at:
OS (Win 7 Pro) - ~17-20GB
Apps - ~8-12GB
(NB - User folders would be directed to a HDD)
I'd also be interested to know what recommendations people have for an SSD. The Intel X-25M and OCZ Vertex 2 series of drives appear the most popular (and PCS sell them so they must like them!), although the specs of the Intel SSDs seem lower. However, I've seen some reviews saying that the Intel is better despite this.
Many thanks for any feedback.
Cheers
During my research, I looked at getting an SSD put in by PCS, but pricewise, I figured I'd hold fire and do a self install later.
I'm just wondering if anyone can give the benefit of experience on sizing an SSD drive to use as the main boot & apps drive, with everything else on normal SATA drives?
I had a little look around my office PC and current home PC for benchmark folder sizes, so I reckon I'd be looking at:
OS (Win 7 Pro) - ~17-20GB
Apps - ~8-12GB
(NB - User folders would be directed to a HDD)
I'd also be interested to know what recommendations people have for an SSD. The Intel X-25M and OCZ Vertex 2 series of drives appear the most popular (and PCS sell them so they must like them!), although the specs of the Intel SSDs seem lower. However, I've seen some reviews saying that the Intel is better despite this.
Many thanks for any feedback.
Cheers
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