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| Thread ID: 116824 | 2011-03-22 00:09:00 | Hard Drive Upgrade Recommendations | HamieSam (15245) | Press F1 |
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| 1188222 | 2011-03-22 00:09:00 | Hi there, I feel my hard drive is in need of an upgrade and was wondering what people recommended. System comprises of: i5 750 gigabyte p55-ub3 crucial 4g ram ddr3 1333 xfx ati 5770 1gb 1tb seagate gdd cooler master 690 case coolermaster silent pro m700 psu My intention is to include a SSD in my setup without spending too much. I've heard that you can run your OS and specific games on the SSD and all the rest leave on the mass hard drive? What size SSD would I need to have Windows7, CounterstrikeSource, WorldofWarcraft, and Blackops running off it and what brand? |
HamieSam (15245) | ||
| 1188223 | 2011-03-22 00:21:00 | 60gb should be plenty. As far as i'm aware, ssd performance decreases as more storage space is occupied. I recommend the vertex or intel x-25 drives. Check the size of the program folders for the games and the windows folders, total that, add about 30% to allow for some room to breathe and you choose the size accordingly. :pf1mobmini: |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1188224 | 2011-03-22 00:23:00 | As for your 1tb hdd, use that for movies, music and other files and program folders that dont need performance priority. :pf1mobmini: |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1188225 | 2011-03-22 01:55:00 | I have a Corsair Force 120Gb on the home PC, however even with the space I wouldnt install games on it. The reason being its really only load up times that benefit and games take a huge wack out of your space. I think SSD are better suited to O/S and Productivity Suites, photos (forget about slow to load thumbnails anymore), and of course browsing will speed up too and temp files are held on the SSD. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1188226 | 2011-03-22 02:03:00 | I've been a bit dubious about the Idea as I still find programs that insist on installing to the C: drive and don't want to have to do any registry hacks to move the default directories for my programs, my documents etc. I think it's a poor windows design that you can't just simply designate these yourself if you wish. With half a dozen games and an otherwise relatively clean install of Win 7 my C: drive is right around 120G used at the moment, includes more than 25G just for wow though which can be just copied to another drive easily so that's a thought. (WOW will happily run from anywhere if you simply copy the whole folder in my experince. I haven't installed it in 3 pc upgrades to date.) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1188227 | 2011-03-22 02:29:00 | Warcraft is about 7-8gb. Counterstrike will be about 2. BlackOps 10+ I have two games (NTW, HOI3) on my windows 7 partition and I am already using up 65.5gb. Add to that office, and all the little bits here and there I'll easily cross the 120gb. Get the biggest Intel or Corsair SSD you can afford. If it's outside your budget, consider waiting (or RAID0), they'll only get cheaper. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1188228 | 2011-03-22 02:41:00 | Get the biggest Intel or Corsair SSD you can afford. :pf1mobmini: |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1188229 | 2011-03-22 02:42:00 | +1 :pf1mobmini: |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1188230 | 2011-03-22 02:42:00 | jareemon: Dude that smiley face of yours is really creeping me out :dogeye: | Cato (6936) | ||
| 1188231 | 2011-03-22 02:52:00 | It's automatically added because I'm using pf1 mobile :pf1mobmini: |
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