How big is your SSD?

[shiny1]

Hi guys. Considering an SSD some time in the near future. I would like to know how much space you allocate to OS, programs and games.

I wonder if I should just wait for the prices to come down considerably.

[issh]

Originally Posted by shiny1

I wonder if I should just wait for the prices to come down considerably.

i'm waiting for SSD's to come down then i will buy, as will technology, most things will go down in a few months

and adding few hundred dollars just to be faster by a few seconds/minutes, i can wait

[stav's]

got a 120GB, but won't fit all my games on it.

[EvilGenius]

Put a 60gb in my laptop, it's not enough. Not nearly enough. Forget how limited you are and dump a large file on your desktop and watch the system whinge at you about there not being enough space. Sigh, money I'll never get back.

[MacroP]

Originally Posted by issh

i'm waiting for SSD's to come down then i will buy, as will technology, most things will go down in a few months

and adding few hundred dollars just to be faster by a few seconds/minutes, i can wait

Unfortunately over the last couple of years SSD pricing has not followed the normal trend. They are a premium product. The SSD specs have picked up for sure but the size/price ratio isn't dropping as quickly as other things. I paid around $360 almost two years ago for a 128GB Gskill Falcon SSD. I paid nearly 200 bucks recently for 60GB unit for mt HTPC PC (and 2x2TB HDDs). Price reduction has been much slower than other PC components.

SSD are a very noticeable performance increase if they're for the OS. IMO - one of the best upgrades you can do. For example - on paper a fast CPU upgrade may look good but in real life the change may not even be noticeable for general tasks. A SSD makes a PC very snappy to use. I'll never build a PC ever again for myself without using a SSD for the OS.

A SSD in a notebook is a more noticeable change again but the size limitation of the SSD is a pain.

IMO - for good performance - a PC should always have at least two physical drives with different partitions. A SSD for the OS/programs as well as a large HDD for the program/media/game files.

[GDavid]

Originally Posted by shiny1

Hi guys. Considering an SSD some time in the near future. I would like to know how much space you allocate to OS, programs and games.

I wonder if I should just wait for the prices to come down considerably.

They already have, AUD ~ USD 60G drive $140, this time last year were 240...

Btw, how do I fill the poll for two sizes?

Originally Posted by issh

i'm waiting for SSD's to come down then i will buy, as will technology, most things will go down in a few months

and adding few hundred dollars just to be faster by a few seconds/minutes, i can wait

Where is the yawn button?

Originally Posted by EvilGenius

Put a 60gb in my laptop, it's not enough. Not nearly enough. Forget how limited you are and dump a large file on your desktop and watch the system whinge at you about there not being enough space. Sigh, money I'll never get back.

It might not be enoughs Evil, but doesn't it boot quickly? You haven't got time for that crap you used to do after you press the power button now do you?
Get a big SDHC card and leave it in there permanently after remapping your documents and downloads etc. to it, until you can afford a bigger one...

Originally Posted by MacroP

Unfortunately over the last couple of years SSD pricing has not followed the normal trend. They are a premium product. The SSD specs have picked up for sure but the size/price ratio isn't dropping as quickly as other things. I paid around $360 almost two years ago for a 128GB Gskill Falcon SSD. I paid nearly 200 bucks recently for 60GB unit for mt HTPC PC (and 2x2TB HDDs). Price reduction has been much slower than other PC components.

SSD are a very noticeable performance increase if they're for the OS. IMO - one of the best upgrades you can do. For example - on paper a fast CPU upgrade may look good but in real life the change may not even be noticeable for general tasks. A SSD makes a PC very snappy to use. I'll never build a PC ever again for myself without using a SSD for the OS.

A SSD in a notebook is a more noticeable change again but the size limitation of the SSD is a pain.

IMO - for good performance - a PC should always have at least two physical drives with different partitions. A SSD for the OS/programs as well as a large HDD for the program/media/game files.

Yes MacroP, I agree with some of what you say (fwiw). If SSDs followed the normal trend they wouldn't be such a leap forward, doesn't it seem to you that mostly the trends anyway have been toward smaller sizes and energy consumption? Sheople will hang around waiting for prices to drop but don't realise the change in real price, just look at your example for the 60 and 2x TBs. Many of us understand what kind of value that represents, I certainly do! HTPC boots in 20 seconds, has loads of storage, and integrates well with the rest of the house. Without the SSD for booting, you switched on the machine before you put the espresso on right?

I'll never build a PC ever again for myself without using a SSD for the OS.

Quote of the day...

[v8tfcorty]

80gb intel as my primary.

[d1ng0d4n]

60GB OCZ Vertex II - OS
30GB Kingston SSDNOW VSeries - Bench Drive

Looking to upgrade my OS drive soon to a 120-160GB SSD and bump the OCZ Vertex II up the ranks to Bench Drive. Just a matter of the dollars

[shiny1]

Why is there a need for a larger SSD for OS partition?
Purely for games? I imagine games to be the largest factor.
I only play Battlefield Bad Company 2 and a few other smaller ones. So say OS is 10gb, total games are 20gb, misc programs are 10gb, I could probably get away with 60 or even 80.

[proffesso]

128gb, 60gb-ish free, no games.

[g3monster]

2x 60gb in raid 0

70GB free no games

[The Sentinel]

I have a 32GB OCX running in my pfSense box.

[DeejW]

Originally Posted by issh

i'm waiting for SSD's to come down then i will buy, as will technology, most things will go down in a few months

and adding few hundred dollars just to be faster by a few seconds/minutes, i can wait

sounds like youve never used one before. if you had you wouldn't go back.

[terrastrife]

I assume the OP means GB not gb.

[EvilGenius]

Originally Posted by GDavid

It might not be enoughs Evil, but doesn't it boot quickly? You haven't got time for that crap you used to do after you press the power button now do you?
Get a big SDHC card and leave it in there permanently after remapping your documents and downloads etc. to it, until you can afford a bigger one...

I'm using it in a Dell latitude E6400, and due to company requirements, it's vista crippled. So frankly, the ssd is doing nothing to help. It did manage to overcome the fact that vista runs like a dog on this machine, despite the more then adequate specs, but now after ~6mths use with no trim support it's no better then the original drive, probably a tad worse. I might be able to say I was getting better battery life, except for the fact that the small size has lead me to install a 2nd hdd for storage...

Basically the only reason it's still in there is because I can't think of another use for it, and I can't bare to have something that cost me $160 sitting on the desk as a paper weight.