Show Us Your WEI [4]

Lady Fitzgerald said:

boogieboy said:

...my next target is a 60GB SSD for OS only :)

Before getting the SSD, make sure you will have at least 20-25% headroom. In other words, if getting a 60GB SSD, you will want no more than 45GB of the SDD in use. I personally feel 120GB should be the minimum for an OS SSD—more if one also puts large games on it—but as long as one can keep the used space down, a smaller one can be used.

but but I will have to wait more to save money and beside the game sizes are getting very large like aaa 30gb or 43gb or even 50gb

old vs new

Six9siX said:

old vs new

Good increases! Your system is now begging for an SSD. Forgive my curiosity but why so many partitions on your HDD?

boogieboy said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

boogieboy said:

...my next target is a 60GB SSD for OS only :)

Before getting the SSD, make sure you will have at least 20-25% headroom. In other words, if getting a 60GB SSD, you will want no more than 45GB of the SDD in use. I personally feel 120GB should be the minimum for an OS SSD—more if one also puts large games on it—but as long as one can keep the used space down, a smaller one can be used.

but but I will have to wait more to save money and beside the game sizes are getting very large like aaa 30gb or 43gb or even 50gb

An SSD won't make games run any faster (although they would certainly load faster) so you could always keep your OS and programs other than games on a smaller SSD and put the games on the HDD. In the future, if your rich uncle dies, leaving you his fortune (or some other windfall comes your way), you can always get a second SSD to put your games on or to replace the smaller SSD.

My desktop uses up almost 65GB on my 128GB SSD (119GB formatted size) just for the OS and programs and not I'm not even a gamer (24GB is taken up by the hyberfil.sys file because I have 32GB RAM; I need to keep Hibernate enabled for my UPS so I can't get rid of the file). Even my notebooks OSes are at about 44-45GB however, since they can have one only one drive, I put a 500GB SSD in one and will be putting a 500Gb SSD in the other one soon (I already have it).

BlackFriday will be fun
I doubt I'll wait though and I'm looking at pre-BFriday deals instead closely
Best deals so far are crucial 128 mx100 for about 70.us.
Crucial 256 mx100 @ 109.
whs got the last deal at 89. I was too late

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Six9siX said:

old vs new

Good increases! Your system is now begging for an SSD. Forgive my curiosity but why so many partitions on your HDD?

It's a 3 disk
500,500,1000gb

ZaLiTH said:

...With regards to games on an dedicated SSD, I finally got a chance to do that myself a few months back.. Can honestly say, after the update, the only real improvement I found was load times...

Prexactly!

Six9siX said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Six9siX said:

old vs new

Good increases! Your system is now begging for an SSD. Forgive my curiosity but why so many partitions on your HDD?

It's a 3 disk
500,500,1000gb

Ok, I totally misread that.

ThrashZone said:

BlackFriday will be fun
I doubt I'll wait though and I'm looking at pre-BFriday deals instead closely
Best deals so far are crucial 128 mx100 for about 70.us.
Crucial 256 mx100 @ 109.
whs got the last deal at 89. I was too late

I pulled the trigger on three monitors last Sunday after NewEgg lowered the price. Today, they cut the price another ten shekels (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble).

I'm still waiting for a sale on four 4 TB Greens.