cheapest SSD possibly available?

[realflow100]

Cheapest smallest (in gb) that can fit a windows 7 on it? i dont care for power savings or features or anything fancy smancy just whatever the cheapest smallest drive available is?

 

[fireberd]

Cheaper may not be better. There are some that have poor reliability.

Check newegg.com they are running a lot of specials now for the holidays.

Here is an excellent price on an Intel SSD.
Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP240G4R5 2.5" 240GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com

 

[MagusMagnus]

Perhaps this. Windows 7 x64 requires 20GB to itself. 40GB left for programs/data other than the OS.

Your system's manufacturer specifications state Serial ATA/300 or which is SATA II. That Patriot 60GB is SATA III but is backwards compatible. It's cheaper than the SATA II's I looked for (increasingly unavailable/obsolete).

IMO, its not worth going with a small SSD like this for primary/OS drive. Not just because your board only supports SATA II (exactly half the speed of SATA III), but also because you'll likely need to install some of your programs on a second drive with this, if they cumulatively exceed that 40GB extra. That is messy and opens you up to a plethora of potential problems (its really best to install programs on the OS drive, except for games, to avoid those potential problems). It's more complicated to restore files (as in the ones containing their settings and so forth) associated with programs if that happens (whereas with games, you generally only need to backup the save files in "My Documents". Reinstalling them isn't near as large of a hassle).

Anyway. If you're really going for it, I'd strongly recommend you partition an HDD to the same size of the SSD and make frequent image backups to it. When SSD's go, they go. No warning. Exactly like the flash sticks/SD cards. Just one of a few reasons I'm not on an SSD yet.

 

[Berton]

As far as size, I just got a Dell Venue Pro 8 with Win8.1 on a 32GB SSD that had 19.7GB usable and 9GB for the Recovery Partition. I added a 16GB microXD card for more storage, may need a 32GB as I get more into using it.

 

[gulls777]

Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB

 

[realflow100]

100$ is NOT CHEAP! my mom would NEVER buy something that expensive and small for that much money! I want Cheap as in can pay for it with birthday money cheap! i may not even need it for an os since i have a 500GB drive and a 250GB drive to store whatever on. or even just use it for some small games and stick pagefile on it. doesnt matter to me if it lasts for 2 seconds or 2 centuries its good enough if i can hold a game or two and a 4GB pagefile

 

[Layback Bear]

realflow100 a easy way to solve your problem is to Google ssd or cheap ssd and do your shopping.

What your mother will or will not spend is really none of our business.
That is between you and your mother.

 

[realflow100]

When i google cheap SSD i get 400GB to 900GB drives that cost over 100$
I want under 40GB and under 50$

 

[pbcopter]

If you do not put your operating system on the SSD, you will not get any performance benefits. Just putting a game or the page file is not really useful for performance.

Amazon.com: 60 gb ssd

I have used a 60GB SSD for Windows 7 but it does not allow for much growth.

 

[DavidE]

Normally when someone has a question for new hardware, budget and max price is important.

Now we now the max budget is under 50.

@realflow100
This should have been in the OP, post #1:

I want under 40GB and under 50$

If you re-read Post #1, #6, and #8, you are changing requirements...
How can anyone give you a best answer/suggestion with your OP post #1 ?

 

[realflow100]

Would this work for a stripped downnnn windows with few to no extra programs (no java or adobe stuff?)? Amazon.com: Kingspec 2.5 Inch Hard Drive SSD 16gb C3000.6 16gb Sataiii 16gb Solid State Drives for Laptop: Computers & Accessories

 

[pbcopter]

No, that would not be suitable, in my opinion.

 

[realflow100]

TinyXP?

 

[MagusMagnus]

The Patriot 60GB is currently $44.99. You're going to be extremely hard-pressed to find one any cheaper. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE ANY LESS THAN 60GB FOR A PRIMARY OS DRIVE. WINDOWS 7 X64 REQUIRES NO LESS THAN 20GB TO ITSELF (AND THAT'S NOT INCLUDING RESTORE DATA THAT POPULATES LATER, UNTIL OR UNLESS DISABLED). A 60GB drive will already be 55GB in actuality. So you're already looking at barely 35GB for everything else (and I'd imagine "everything else" ALSO includes the OS Updates)... that's really tight for a primary OS drive. Do not expect to be able to put more than a couple games on it, if that.

Also, if you're going to keep your OS on an HDD, don't waste your money on SSD at all. There will be absolutely zero performance increase if you do that. The OS must be on an SSD for your system to be able to utilize and benefit from SSD performance at all.

And it is again strongly recommended that you use one of your other HDD's for drive image backups of ANY SSD. Move the files off of the HDD first (if you try messing with partitions with data on the drive, there is a chance you will wipe them on accident), then create a partition to the parameters of the SSD (overall size, cluster and so forth must match) and make FREQUENT backup images. If you do not, you stand to lose everything when or if the SSD goes. They do so WITHOUT warning.

 

[pbcopter]

You could use XP, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft.

Personally, I would save a bit more and get a reasonable size SSD, if you want an SSD.

 

[Berton]

I want Cheap as in can pay for it with birthday money cheap

I didn't catch that part earlier but it does speak to a youthful situation. We quit giving birthday money when the youngsters reach 18.

One thing I've noticed is the lower capacity and cheaper drives tend to be eliminated from the supply chains as technology advances and people keep wanting the latest and greatest, biggest and fastest. It boils down to if there's a need or desire and the product is available it's best to buy it now, may not be available later.

 

[pbcopter]

We quit giving birthday money when the youngsters reach 18.

I'm in my late 60's and I still get birthday money from my parents, in-laws. LOL.

Do not let them know they should have stopped at 18.

 

[RogerR]

That is messy and opens you up to a plethora of potential problems (its really best to install programs on the OS drive, except for games, to avoid those potential problems).

Curious as to the plethora of problems. I use an SSD for my OS and have separate (platter) HDDs for programs and backups. Its been years since I let my OS play in the same space as programs and data and I seem to have missed the problems.

On SSD reliability, much of the 'data' is anecdotal and refers to the earliest generations of a rapidly advancing platform. Brand makes a difference, but for most users SSD are now about as reliable as mechanical drives. That of course is a relative term. Here's a little ditty for you:

Still, I've read failure rates of SSDs are now around 1.5%, so that's par.

 

[MagusMagnus]

That is messy and opens you up to a plethora of potential problems (its really best to install programs on the OS drive, except for games, to avoid those potential problems).

Curious as to the plethora of problems. I use an SSD for my OS and have separate (platter) HDDs for programs and backups. Its been years since I let my OS play in the same space as programs and data and I seem to have missed the problems.

On SSD reliability, much of the 'data' is anecdotal and refers to the earliest generations of a rapidly advancing platform. Brand makes a difference, but for most users SSD are now about as reliable as mechanical drives. That of course is a relative term. Here's a little ditty for you:

Still, I've read failure rates of SSDs are now around 1.5%, so that's par.

The last time (couple years ago) I installed programs on an external/drive other than OS primary, the registry kept losing their filepaths (and I do not use registry cleaners). I had to keep uninstalling and reinstalling and I eventually just said screw it and stopped trying to do that. But that's my experience. No idea if that's still a hazard or not. Hopefully not but anyway, just thought that may be good to mention just in case that wasn't an isolated occurrence.

I've seen that before, I know the rates. I wasn't saying that SSD's are less reliable than HDD's. I was just pointing out that SSD's rarely give warning when they're going to fail. HDD's can also not give you ample warning enough to pull your data off, however I've personally always had ample warning with HDD's (noises, SMART etc). I've heard the exact opposite being true with SSD's, that most often when they go, they just go. Not unlike with all other flash media... it works, right up until it doesn't. That's all. Happy to hear the SSD failure rates are improving.

 

[MrRichGuy]

I don't think any company produce a SSD with 50Gb.