Question for the PC Gamers

[Evoss]

I would go for SSD, but I have not got a spare £100... 

You only need it to hold the operating system.

1 x OCZ Vertex 30GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX30G)  £49.99
Total : £52.97 (includes shipping : £2.48).

[Golf_GT_TDI]

I've been running OCZ Vertex 2E since last year, best thing I ever did was go down SSD route, I recommend a 60GB/64GB drive, with Win7 installed and tonnes of programs you'll be hitting around 50% capacity, in my opinion don't go with 30GB drives as you'll soon have it near full capacity and I hear its best to keep SSD's under 75% capacity for optimum performance.

[Jimp]

Storing the OS on a solid state drive is a brilliant idea. Do you guys store other programs on there or just the OS?

[Golf_GT_TDI]

Yes on the SSD are Windows 7 Home Premium and all programs I've added. Documents, Music, Downloads etc folders are mapped to my D drive (sata HDD) and I also install all games to the D drive. 

[Evoss]

Storing the OS on a solid state drive is a brilliant idea. Do you guys store other programs on there or just the OS?

OS and applications I often use.

My motherboard also uses my SSD as a huge cache xD

[justalex81]

just to point out that a windows 7 professional installation with office and all updates carried out takes up 25gb. 30gb for a boot drive is too small unless you're not planning on installing much else or you're still on xp

[AlexMozza]

I would go for SSD, but I have not got a spare £100... 

You only need it to hold the operating system.

1 x OCZ Vertex 30GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX30G)  £49.99
Total : £52.97 (includes shipping : £2.48).

Just ordered one from SCAN and a CPU water cooling unit

[Evoss]

just to point out that a windows 7 professional installation with office and all updates carried out takes up 25gb. 30gb for a boot drive is too small unless you're not planning on installing much else or you're still on xp

Office is not the operating system, it is a budget, so it is ONLY for the OS, so this serves its purpose fine.

[justalex81]

just to point out that a windows 7 professional installation with office and all updates carried out takes up 25gb. 30gb for a boot drive is too small unless you're not planning on installing much else or you're still on xp

Office is not the operating system, it is a budget, so it is ONLY for the OS, so this serves its purpose fine.

i didn't say it was an operating system. I said that windows 7 professional with microsoft office installed (most people use office) with all microsoft updates applied uses 25gb of space.

Also by the time that 30GB drive is formatted it will actually be just under 28gb.