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I would always say get as big as you can afford Bob, the 240/250/256GB ones seem to be reasonably priced now, in fact around the same price as my first 60GB one a few years back.
It also depends how you are going to use it. 128GB is plenty if you are gonna have a regular HDD for storage and for games if you have loads.
Paul.
The Samsung Pro 256GB is $215. at NCIX. The OCZ I have now, was $79. when new a year ago, now on newegg it is $190. this I do not understand !
My thought is to buy this one time and not be sorry in a couple of years, thinking back, why did I not get a bigger one. This is one reason why I did not buy the 128GB last week.
Too many SSD beginners get impressed by the big numbers. But what you usually see are sequential transfer times of large blocks. However, for the OS those are completely irrelevant. The numbers to focus on are access time and 4K random R/W speeds because that's what the OS uses most of the time.
A good SSD that is suitable for the OS should have an access time around 0.1ms (as measured with AS SSD) and a 4K transfer time around 100MB/sec (as measured with Atto).
Quoted for truth. Cannot stress this enough, for an OS drive, the advertised speeds are worthless. Number one factor before buying would be reliability, then performance. Any of the top drives should perform within a few percent of each other so you basically find a brand with a good reputation of being reliable and look to catch one on sale.
While browsing I found this site - probably known about already but if not id quite good .
The SSD Review « The Worlds Dedicated SSD Education and Review Resource | The SSD Review some really good reading for no brainers like me
PS the Guides tab then the SSD database gives al the brands and what controllers they have.