60GB SSD enough for Windows+WoW?

[Boyiee]

Looking at my SSD's, I'm running 2x 40's in Raid0, and I've used up about 61.5gb of it with 2games, windows, and a couple apps.

I'm looking to get my sister an SSD, probably: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227542 but am worried that OS+WoW+a couple apps might be cutting it close. Like within 5gb or less.

Should I bump up to a higher GB drive? That SSD is one of the few with 5eggs so thats why I chose it.

[Weeks]

Easily. I've got two computers running little other than Windows 7 and FFXI, one on a 40GB drive and one on a 30GB drive. WoW is a few GB bigger than FFXI so I wouldn't recommend trying to squeeze it onto a 30GB, but 60 is way more than enough for someone who knows better than to store stuff on it.

[Boyiee]

Excellent. Looking around a bit more, found a kingston 64gb for 135 with a MIB making it 95, also comes with brackets and shit.

Normally I stay away from that brand, but it's got a pretty high rating considering it's kingston. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820139133

edit: what confuses me is I just reformatted my SSD's this week, literally nothing on them but OS/WoW/COD/antivirus/itunes/firefox, if I subtract the 8gb of COD, I'd have 53.5GB used. That seems like way too much, and her drive would be set up probably identically. Guess i should bump up to the 60+ range just to be safe.

edit: lol fucking mobile apps from itunes is like 3gb, so I counted like 43. No idea where those other 10gb are.

[CoronA1979]

Yah you should be fine

The Kingston is a decent drive, actually.

I personall have Intel's but even those are being surpassed in the speed market nowadays. I have no complaints though with 2 Intel 80gb's in a RAID0. If anything, I rarely hear bad things about the Intel drives.. They have a 40gb drive also. The write speed is horrid and the read again not the highest on the market (It's also there low end model drive) but the stability of Intel, I like. You really aren't going to be writing to a SSD constantly anyways, especially not one that is a boot drive for the most part and if you are, you're an idiot.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-030-_-Product

[Djghost454]

I have a 60gb SSD with windows 7. It will work, but its a royal PITA, I wouldn't get less than 80 minimum, 120 recommended

[Boyiee]

I have no problems with my 2x 40's in raid0 with 2 huge games on the drive plus pretty much all apps. Just thought I'd be cutting it close even with minus one game, but the kingston 64gb is a good price and should suffice.

[Slott]

Wow is roughly 26 gigs alone for me. After cataclysm comes out next week, expect the number to be somewhere over 30. Windows 7 home I believe took up roughly 15 gigs, so right there you're looking at 40-50 gigs.

[Purrrfect]

I was really looking at that kingston too, but after thinking on it some I thought it best to wait for a deal on a 80+ drive. Hopefully they will be coming soon. 7 just takes up too much space...

[Boyiee]

Welp I went to buy the kingston today and it was out of stock. Although, I heard they are bad with rebates.

Back to my original http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227542 60gb, hopefully it's enough. I have roughly 10gb free out of my 74.5, -8 more for COD, -4 from my users folder (fucking itunes apps) = 52.5gb used. The 60 should be just right.

[Boyiee]

The fucking price went up on that OCZ. I'm looking at these 2 SSD's right now:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227542 121.99 after MIB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820250001 $120

The OCZ supposedly is a bit faster, but I get those 4gb of space out of the WD and the comfort of having a WD. My sister isn't a power user, like I said just OS+1Game+A few Apps... any suggestion on which?

[CoronA1979]

I'd go w/ the WD just based on not having to deal w/ a rebate. OCZ's rebate dept isn't anything inpressive, unless it's changed from the past.

[Boyiee]

If the assholes didn't up the price within the past few hours then I'd deal with the rebate.

[CoronA1979]

It's NewEgg, they are notorious for floating prices...

I bought this NIC

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=killer%202100

It used to be 129.99 - When I bought it 3 weeks ago it was 89.99 - 3 days later it was 69.99 - The day after that it was 72.50 - You see the price now.

So, yah...