80GB SSD Worth It?

[Rellikard]

So I have an 80GB Intel X25-M coming in tomorrow. Worth putting my OS on it or should I just stick w/ a regular HDD and sell it? Got it for $130 btw. Still kinda skeptical on whether it's worth it at all.

Currently I have a 500GB that's partitioned partially for data/downloading and my OS and 1TB in Raid1. My FFXI folder is 9GB and Steam is about 70GB.

[OWS_Tonx]

Based on what everyone's told me today, yes. Very worth it

[Pandum]

seconded. you'll love it

[Rellikard]

Well think I'll have to junction my Steam and PlayOnline folders to be safe if I'm going to do this.

[Xaxius]

It's difficult to say if their "worth it". I love mine, I personally have two 80 GB OCZ SSDs in a Raid 0 array but I'm a geeky nutjob. Their read speeds are insane fast and your OS is going to be incredibly punchy. If you play games, levels/zones will load much faster and in some cases instantly. Windows and applications will load quickly as well. On the flip side, it will do very little to improve overall application performance. You won't see an FPS increase in any game and MS Word can only load so fast.

If you can justify the price of admission, in my opinion, they're worth it.

[hopefulki]

SSD are amazing, but start getting slower over time. The newer drives all support TRIM which basically restores your drive to it's original performance state. I don't know about the performance of that drive but I know the vertex2 is getting amazing reviews with it's sandforce controller. I know overclock.net has some great SSD info you may want to check out. You'll love having an SSD for sure, just requires a bit more care.

[Xaxius]

You'll love having an SSD for sure, just requires a bit more care.

If you do get the SSD, just remember... there's no need to defrag.

[hopefulki]

Very good reminder lol

[Yabby]

Slap your OS on it, you will never look back.

[sav]

They are an interesting glimpse into the future of everyday computing capabilities and one hundred percent worth their cost. Like yab said, you won't think twice after using it.

[Vuitton]

I am trying to choose between the 40gb and 80gb version of the same SSD right now.

[OWS_Tonx]

Savior told me earlier the 40 would be fine as long as you keep your OS on it only. I'm considering the 40GB one though.

[kareface]

I have 2 40's in a raid 0, love it. One thing that sucks tho is my external drives slow the bootup on the board I'm using, lol. Other than that everything is much faster. My media computer caches artwork when scrolling through movies so quick it's nutty.

[Vuitton]

Isn't W7 only like 16gb or something? Seems like we could use the 40gb drive for more than just the OS.

I think I might get the 80gb version just so I can throw a game on there like FFXIV or something to help with loading, cutscenes, ect.

[OWS_Tonx]

I figured 40 would be fine. OS + final fantasy + random apps and some software would be good. I have the 80 in my cart right now, but I don't know which I'm going to go through with, but for the sake of having the space I'll more than likely be going with the 80.

[Kiine]

Just a note:
I believe Win7 has TRIM support built in (only about 20% sure...). If you're using XP, you'll need .Net 2.0 (or perhaps 3.5). The Intel toolbox requires it (v2) and has not been rewritten (as of yesterday anyway...) to use .Net 4.

[Metafox]

So I have an 80GB Intel X25-M coming in tomorrow. Worth putting my OS on it or should I just stick w/ a regular HDD and sell it? Got it for $130 btw. Still kinda skeptical on whether it's worth it at all.

Where did you find one for $130? Was it the 40GB model? The best price I can find for the 80GB model is $220.

[Altimus]

Where did you find one for $130? Was it the 40GB model? The best price I can find for the 80GB model is $220.

Probably Intel Retail Edge

[aalryn]

I have the X-25 80gb and LOVE IT. I have windows 7, FF14, and office on it.

couldn't be happier.

(just remember to switch your download, documents, pictures, and video links to a different drive)

[quannum]

just remember to switch your download, documents, pictures, and video links to a different drive

    xcopy /E /H /O /X /Y /I C:\Users D:\Users
    rmdir /S /Q C:\Users
    rmdir "C:\Documents and Settings"
    mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users
    mklink /J "C:\Documents and Settings" D:\Users

doing this will erase the special icons of these folders, but it's the fastest way to do this under vista/7. i've read robocopy will preserve the icons, but don't know the correct syntax

in english:
1) copy data from c:\users to d:\users
2) remove c:\users
3) remove c:\Documents and Settings (this is just a link to c:\users)
4) recreate c:\users as a redirect link to d:\users
5) recreate c:\Documents and Settings as a redirect link to d:\users