Looking to for buying advice on a new SSD

[FlameofTheWest]

I am looking to pop a new SSD in my current desktop rig as my OS and gaming drive. Im willing to spend up to about $215.00 on one and im looking for about 75-120gb of capacity. Im currently running Win7 Pro x64 and probably will trying moving my current OS setup over to the new drive. any advice would be greatly appreciated. Ive looked at some OCZ vortex2s

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227685

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227590

[Wingnut]

I like, and would suggest, your second choice there. It fits exactly what you asked for.

While a 60-80G drive will suffice, it can just be a pain if you load up the %root% drive with programs. I had no problems running an early 60G SSD (with another spindle drive) until I really wanted my games I play most on root. While it was fine and dandy with things split off, I found I could really only fit 3 games on the smallish SSD and ended up with 15% spare. And that's with no VM, 1,024M Recycle, and pretty small restore space (forgot the percent I had it set to).

That's a good price for 120G IMO as well. However, my ideal on SSD's are to treat them like gold...because they are! 50% rule works for me: If you buy a 120G drive, treat it like you only have 60G to utilize. There's no need for videos, music, and all that document stuff to be on an SSD; so have it on a fatter spindle drive and Win7 makes that simple as Pi. 1TB drives are what...$60? Or use what you have now, migrate, double check, and then wipe it for document usage.

If you're a media editing guy, there's some adjustments you may want to make in your routine, but it's simple stuff (Like, keep the hard copy on spindle, but copy it to a "Working" folder on the SSD while working with it. When you're done, save it to the spindle and delete the SSD working content).

I just kinda freaked a bit moving FSX content over on 60G, let alone other games. You'll want elbow room. Even with 240G, I sweat a bit if I cross 160G.

[FlameofTheWest]

I want to move over my OS from my current HDD, what would u recommend as the best way to do that? The only and thing i plan on running off of it is Win7 and some choice games like Rift, Medal of honor, Starcraft2, etc. Thanks so much for the response, i had no idea the fourms had slowed so much. Im deciding between the OCZ Vortex2, Crucial C300 or wait a couple weeks and see what the new lines look like that should be dropping soon.

[Wingnut]

Originally Posted by FlameofTheWest

I had no idea the forums had slowed so much.

Yeah, me too. I bugged out when I made 8 posts and filled the top. It'll pick up again.

There's several methods here, but the easiest and most clean for moving Win7 from a spindle to an SSD is a re-install with the old HDD disconnected. It really only takes maybe 15minutes before you're ejecting the disk. There's just several issues with cloning that can really make it a much more difficult task than need be.

After plugging in the old hdd, you can right click documents, videos, etc... and just point them to where they are on the spindle, include them, set as save location, then remove the default location. I'm not sure if the migration wizard is as selective as you'd need it to be...but it's an option. Have a 640G drive about filled up and a 60G SSD, so I'll see if it's really pain free or not.


I want to move over my OS from my current HDD, what would u recommend as the best way to do that? The only and thing i plan on running off of it is Win7 and some choice games like Rift, Medal of honor, Starcraft2, etc. Thanks so much for the response,
Im deciding between the OCZ Vortex2, Crucial C300 or wait a couple weeks and see what the new lines look like that should be dropping soon.