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[williebonney]

No Adam, not STDs.  SSDs.

I just replaced my boot drive with an SSD.  I got the 120GB Corsair Force 3 from Fry's for $189.  Next I want to get another SSD for games and programs and such.  Any suggestions on what I should get?  Ideally something under $300-350.  Should be SATA3.  I don't think I need anything more than 240gb, and that might even be overkill for what I'd use it for.

BTW my birthday is coming up in November and what I really want is this:
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/OCZ-ZDrive-R4-Performance-Preview/

So if any of you want to get me something...

[Andy]

Honestly I would put my important games on the SSD an ALL windows programs on a secondary drive (my 10k rpm 600 gig). 120gig should be big enough for that. If you wanted one for a boot drive then one for games just get a 40gig boot SSD and use that 120gig for games with another 1tb or w/e for games. And willie I think I'll just prank call your boss for your b-day. Send me his phone #.

[Vega]

I agree with Andy, let me have your boss number please... I do have a few things to say to him thats way better then that...

[Hedonistic1]

What i may do is get a 60gb ssd as a boot drive for windows, get a 120 for games and a larger drive to have pics, videos, music, secondary games ectt ect. on.  the cost, to performance, to reliability ratio is just not there on the ssd's yet in my opinion.

[Hedonistic1]

Also try and stay away from any ssd that has a sandforce controller as most manufacturers are having reliability issues.

[williebonney]

Thanks for the input guys. Maybe I'll change back my system drive and use this for games.

[Hedonistic1]

I ordered up my own ssd from newegg this Sunday. Crucial m4 128gb. My current drive is getting long in the tooth and starting to make extra noise and take longer to do most things. I am going to keep the old drive as a back up in case something goes wrong with the ssd. I will use the ssd as a boot disk and to put a few games on. I will also soon be getting a larger standard drive for storage.

[Andy]

I think that once I get some money for my settlement, I will be buying some PC upgrades like an SSD. I don't know whether I want to get a 120 or 240 for my games only drive but I will definitely get a 1TB drive to use as a backup drive and make a new backup every week or so. If Bulldozer ends up being significantly better than my current CPU I think I will upgrade there as well. That upgrade plus a new monitor will probly cost around 1000 to 1200 bucks with an SSD or 2 thrown in there. A dedicated 20 to 40 gig SSD for bootup sounds good to me as well. I will also get a new mobo with ddr3 1866 ram which costs about 15 more than what I paid for my ddr3 1333. My video card will be great for a long time so no worries there unless it kaputs. I may look into a sound card for my PC as well.

[Hedonistic1]

sounds good Andy! What size monitor your looking at?

I have seen that the larger ssd drives seem to have a bit fast read and write times for some reason but it's doubtful we could tell a difference.

My Intel buddy says he is working with DDR4 so expect that to be around in about 6 months or less. He may also have a 980x or 990x i7 that might get loaned to me!!!!!!

[Hedonistic1]

got the new ssd installed in the pc but i have not hooked it up yet. i just dont have the time to load it all up yet, maybe Sunday?

[Andy]

We will see what happens, my settlement could be a long ways away. or not. dunno

[Andy]

Also looking at a 25" or 27" monitor. Anything bigger gets rather expensive. Or just the ultra high res monitors are real expensive. Probly looking at a 1080p with 2ms refresh.