So…I have a Crucial 60GB ssd as the main drive on my pc. I am very happy with it, but now it's full. The kids with their Minecraft etc. have chewed through the most. It's getting to be a proper job clearing out files to get reasonable free space. Would you upsize on a limited budget? And to what?
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fattyboombatty on 28/08/2013 - 20:28
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Is it time to stretch to ~240GB? That 60 barely made a year - not looking forward to upgrading agin. The kids know how to chew it up; I'm not bad pushing a pc around - make all the right settings - but they find a way.
Depends if you are using it as your only drive, or just a drive for OS and programs, with media etc on a different drive.
If you store your media on a different drive then 128GB should be fine.
If your motherboard is compatible, you may also consider Intel Smart Response Technology. I haven't used it, but from what I understand it if you also have a normal hdd it uses the SSD as a cache. You would get most of the benefits of having the operating system on an SSD, as well as other programs likely loading faster, and you as you are not able to directly interact with the drive in the operating system you would not have the confusion of having files across to hard drives.
Crucial 60GB ssd as the main drive on my pc
Does this mean you have a secondary drive? Because I would suggest getting a ~2tb HDD for storage etc.
I got a 128gb SSD and found it filled up quick with all my steam games, so I eventually started installing on my secondary, 7200rpm HDD, and I can't even notice the difference. That being said I don't have anything too massive on there like skyrim.
And this option will be much cheaper than a 256gb SSD
You need to get a second hard drive installed, and move your crap and junk on there. Go out there and buy a 1TB drive or larger.
Minecraft gets to stay on the SSD though, because that game is fairly tiny on storage requirements.
60gb ssd - Netbook drive
120/128gb ssd - Average users and gamers alike; os drive + small amount of frequently used programs and paired with a storage standard HDD for downloads, programs etc
256gb ssd - Lite users who want to keep everything installed on one drive, but don't download or use the PC enough to warrant a storage drive.Anything more than that - People with large budgets with no concern for value/money ratios.
Alternatively, you could go a single SSHD such as this one
http://www.mwave.com.au/product/sku-ab51090-seagate_st2000dx…
They are a hybrid mixing some of the speed benefits of a SSD, with all of the storage benefits of a HDD.
Though at that price, you can pair that 128gb plextor drive with a good 1 or 2 tb hard drive for the same price or less. Personally, I would go the 2 drives - far superior performance and more storage. Hybrids are more suitable for people with space requirements, ie laptops. I actually put one in a friends laptop and she's pretty happy with it - say's it's like she bought a new better computer.The MSY drive is pretty decent, I own one and it's been going good since June. It does fill up pretty quickly when I get lazy and forgot to change my download files location. It's got around 80gb free at the moment after a fresh install at the start of the week (with minimal amount of programs installed/windows updates and general downloads). So if you keep on top of changing download and install locations it should be good for space for a long time.
Not meaning to hijack the thread, but what are people's views on pricing of SSDs? Also relates to the OP i guess if he is going to upgrade.
I'm considering a 256 and have noticed that prices have dropped considerably over the last year. But they seem to have found a level point and not really dropped for a while, staying around the $180-190 mark at best.
Any thoughts on if it is worth waiting another 6 months or if there are no breakthroughs in storage then will pricing not change that much an best bet would be to just keep an eye out for sale prices now?
Waiting for a good sale and pouncing on that would be the wise option
For anything 240G or under they have mostly settled. I expect sizes larger than this to keep coming down, but that won't affect the lower end too much. 60G will probably just go away rather than getting much cheaper.
Of course, this is just my own random thoughts.
Some choices:
Samsung 840 250GB - $180 (72 cents per GB)
SanDisk SSD Ultra Plus 256GB - $185 (72.3 cents per GB)
Plextor M5S 128GB - $89 (69.5 per GB)All 3 drives come with 3 year warranty. Samsung 840 is a TLC drive, so while it is fast, it probably won't last as long.
I recommend 250/256GB one. They offer best performance (best read & write speed). With 128GB, there is only Plextor M5S that's reasonably priced and even that is only ok (given that it was $79 at once stage).
The issue is the SSD price has gone up in the past 4 weeks (due to a weaker AUD). These SSDs are popular so the price will probably not drop for a while (and the weaker AUD will mean it will continue to rise a bit here).
Well I just woke up to missing the Amazon UK 840 deal. Damn.
When you say a TLC drive, what do you mean by that? It has a short life span for any particular reason?Because of the technology used. Having said that the 840 drives are providing to be quite long lasting (no SSD will last forever).
Thanks for the replies everyone - forgot I posted this :-)
FTR - 60GB boot drive with Win 7. Two 1TB drives and one 1.5 TB drive for storage
It's not the storage that's an issue, it's the boot drive. Installed programs have a habit of storing data on the boot drive even if you install the program to a storage drive. I do my best to keep the boot drive clean but it feels like I'm chasing ghosts sometimes trying to free up space. Currently reclaimed 2 GBs by wiping out old Minecraft logs in the appdata folder.
I hummed and hawwed about the shopping express deal and by the time I decided to jump on it they were out of stock.
Here's hoping it comes up again next Friday, only $5 cheaper
Probably should shell out for a 128GB one, MSY are having a promo ATM for $89 which is quite good.
You can probably clean out the drive for the time being, but 60GB is small and it will eventually fill up. In a desktop, I suggest that 128GB is the best size as you do have HDD storage available for mass storage.