You shouldn't put other stuff to ssd than OS, programs and some storage speed critical games (mmos). 80 Gigs is fine for that.
I am only putting the OS and my games onto it. The Crucial 256GB SSD is a great value for its performance and storage, and it will allow me to have that bit of insurance that I won't run out of space any time soon.
Many disks have better €/gig relation than intel/indilinx but usually they are quite much slower and don't support many important features such as TRIM. Also, the product support with firmwares can be next to nothing.
I am not sure, but I think I heard that Crucial has great firmware support and that their 256GB SSDs do support Trim. Also, I have read multiple benchmarks on it, and it performs similarly to mainstream Intel and OCZ products, and only slightly worse than their high end products.
EDIT: I have found the sites with which I made these discoveries:
They don't have enough random operation tests is those reviews. But it seems the m225 has indilinx controller, which is a great thing. Still, I don't see to where you need such big disk. The technology quickly takes large steps ahead, I wouldn't invest very much on ssd since after a while there's much better disks available and your current disk has lost its value totally.
IMO windows 7 installation takes around 10 gigs, not fully sure tho.
Originally posted by dfan They don't have enough random operation tests is those reviews. But it seems the m225 has indilinx controller, which is a great thing. Still, I don't see to where you need such big disk. The technology quickly takes large steps ahead, I wouldn't invest very much on ssd since after a while there's much better disks available and your current disk has lost its value totally. IMO windows 7 installation takes around 10 gigs, not fully sure tho.
My Windows 7 install is sitting at 13GB after 6 months of use, and my Program Files is at 3GB with all the apps I use (OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity, etc). Most games are about 6-8GB, MMO's around 13GB. Dragon Age is 17GB.
So on a 80GB drive you could probably fit Windows, all your apps, and 4 or 5 of your most played games. Wouldn't hurt to do 128GB but I only keep a few games installed at a time anyway (LotRO, Bioshock, Borderlands, Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and Sins of a Solar Empire atm). Everything else on your 640GB data drive.
If you really feel like you need 256GB of performance storage though go for it.
They don't have enough random operation tests is those reviews. But it seems the m225 has indilinx controller, which is a great thing. Still, I don't see to where you need such big disk. The technology quickly takes large steps ahead, I wouldn't invest very much on ssd since after a while there's much better disks available and your current disk has lost its value totally.
IMO windows 7 installation takes around 10 gigs, not fully sure tho.
My Windows 7 install is sitting at 13GB after 6 months of use, and my Program Files is at 3GB with all the apps I use (OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity, etc). Most games are about 6-8GB, MMO's around 13GB. Dragon Age is 17GB.
So on a 80GB drive you could probably fit Windows, all your apps, and 4 or 5 of your most played games. Wouldn't hurt to do 128GB but I only keep a few games installed at a time anyway (LotRO, Bioshock, Borderlands, Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and Sins of a Solar Empire atm). Everything else on your 640GB data drive.
If you really feel like you need 256GB of performance storage though go for it.
I would rather keep all of my games on my SSD since I have the budget to accommodate a high performance 256GB SSD.
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You shouldn't put other stuff to ssd than OS, programs and some storage speed critical games (mmos). 80 Gigs is fine for that.
I am only putting the OS and my games onto it. The Crucial 256GB SSD is a great value for its performance and storage, and it will allow me to have that bit of insurance that I won't run out of space any time soon.
Many disks have better €/gig relation than intel/indilinx but usually they are quite much slower and don't support many important features such as TRIM. Also, the product support with firmwares can be next to nothing.
I am not sure, but I think I heard that Crucial has great firmware support and that their 256GB SSDs do support Trim. Also, I have read multiple benchmarks on it, and it performs similarly to mainstream Intel and OCZ products, and only slightly worse than their high end products.
EDIT: I have found the sites with which I made these discoveries:
Trim and firmware support - http://www.forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Crucial-SSD-support-for-TRIM/td-p/2590;jsessionid=91A5BF3D73ED9ACA0BCB068A545463BF
Benchmarks - http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=351&Itemid=60
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2846/crucial_m225_256gb_solid_state_disk/index.html
Does anyone know what the size of Windows 7 is?
They don't have enough random operation tests is those reviews. But it seems the m225 has indilinx controller, which is a great thing. Still, I don't see to where you need such big disk. The technology quickly takes large steps ahead, I wouldn't invest very much on ssd since after a while there's much better disks available and your current disk has lost its value totally.
IMO windows 7 installation takes around 10 gigs, not fully sure tho.
My Windows 7 install is sitting at 13GB after 6 months of use, and my Program Files is at 3GB with all the apps I use (OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity, etc). Most games are about 6-8GB, MMO's around 13GB. Dragon Age is 17GB.
So on a 80GB drive you could probably fit Windows, all your apps, and 4 or 5 of your most played games. Wouldn't hurt to do 128GB but I only keep a few games installed at a time anyway (LotRO, Bioshock, Borderlands, Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and Sins of a Solar Empire atm). Everything else on your 640GB data drive.
If you really feel like you need 256GB of performance storage though go for it.
Ok, because I checked the size of Vista to gauge how big of an SSD I would need, and it came in at a whopping 17.1GB!!!!!!!!
My Windows 7 install is sitting at 13GB after 6 months of use, and my Program Files is at 3GB with all the apps I use (OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity, etc). Most games are about 6-8GB, MMO's around 13GB. Dragon Age is 17GB.
So on a 80GB drive you could probably fit Windows, all your apps, and 4 or 5 of your most played games. Wouldn't hurt to do 128GB but I only keep a few games installed at a time anyway (LotRO, Bioshock, Borderlands, Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and Sins of a Solar Empire atm). Everything else on your 640GB data drive.
If you really feel like you need 256GB of performance storage though go for it.
I would rather keep all of my games on my SSD since I have the budget to accommodate a high performance 256GB SSD.