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I am getting a 60GB SSD and I choose this over the 120GB option as I am on a REALLY tight budget and 120GB is not to much more than 60GB to be honest. But will I be able to get windows on there and maybe some small 1-5gbs games?

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Windows 7 64Bit SP1 freshly installed takes 20GB, so if you dont have a lot of games you should be ok, i would personally push the budget a little and go for a 120gb

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Yes but its going to get full very soon

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It is enough, but I would recommend saving up some more/waiting for a sale and going for 120GB. Get a HDD for games anyway (unless these small games take forever to load).

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Just get the 120gb...games are getting bigger and ssds are dirt cheap these days. You're not going to spend 250 dollars like I did years ago. When my old storage drive failed. It was hell skimping by on 111gb of space.

 

 

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I am getting a 60GB SSD and I choose this over the 120GB option as I am on a REALLY tight budget and 120GB is not to much more than 60GB to be honest. But will I be able to get windows on there and maybe some small 1-5gbs games?

It is I guess, for windows and some few games. But imho it's not value for money. You can push the budget a little bit more and even get a 256gb.

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Windows 7 64Bit SP1 freshly installed takes 20GB, so if you dont have a lot of games you should be ok, i would personally push the budget a little and go for a 120gb

I do have over 100 games but I am only going to put the slow loading ones on. I will try this SSD and if it is good I will get a 500GB one on christmas or something. I plan to have a really large HyperX SSD for games and this smaller 60GB Kingston one for Windows but for now I should be ok. I just could nto afford the extra £10 for the 120GB one :(

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Yes but its going to get full very soon

I will be carefull and manage my space.

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Jup, i got a 64 GB SSD for Windows and some large programs like Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Visual Studio and more and i got like 10 GB left.

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Using Windows NTFS compression will save a few gigabytes.

Would that affect windows performance?

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Jup, i got a 64 GB SSD for Windows and some large programs like Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Visual Studio and more and i got like 10 GB left.

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I am getting a 60GB SSD and I choose this over the 120GB option as I am on a REALLY tight budget and 120GB is not to much more than 60GB to be honest. But will I be able to get windows on there and maybe some small 1-5gbs games?

 i wouldnt do this personally

 

I'd rather have a 1TB black drive, and sacrifice some speed

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mine takes 20gb wtf >:c

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I do have over 100 games but I am only going to put the slow loading ones on. I will try this SSD and if it is good I will get a 500GB one on christmas or something. I plan to have a really large HyperX SSD for games and this smaller 60GB Kingston one for Windows but for now I should be ok. I just could nto afford the extra £10 for the 120GB one :(

Be careful - the V300 SSDs are horrible 

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Be careful - the V300 SSDs are horrible 

Whys that?

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Whys that?

They changed their NAND to Asynchronous. Now you'll get barely more speed than a HDD in some cases, and you're paying only slightly less than other (far better) drives. There's a (horrible) reason why they're so cheap compared to other drives.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

 

Honestly if I were you I'd save the extra 10-20 pounds over the next month or so just to get a better drive

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#sort=a9&t=0&i=25&S=80000,6000000

 

Here are a list of 128GB SSDs, and SanDisk starts at 12 pounds more than the 60GB Kingston one

Cost per GB for the MX100 is 41p, compared to the 58p of the Kingston V300

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They changed their NAND to Asynchronous. Now you'll get barely more speed than a HDD in some cases, and you're paying only slightly less than other (far better) drives. There's a (horrible) reason why they're so cheap compared to other drives.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

 

Honestly if I were you I'd save the extra 10-20 pounds over the next month or so just to get a better drive

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#sort=a9&t=0&i=25&S=80000,6000000

 

Here are a list of 128GB SSDs, and SanDisk starts at 12 pounds more than the 60GB Kingston one

Cost per GB for the MX100 is 41p, compared to the 58p of the Kingston V300

There was an Intel 40GB one but that was only SATA2

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Several things:

You'll find getting things to NOT install on C: is a bitch. I went to 60 gigs in a blink of an eye.

The 60gb are terrible drives spec speaking. They are the slowest by far and most are obsolete. As in you're buying new old stock. I don't think any major manufacturer/marketer makes them any more. 120 gb aren't really great either but far better than the 60's. The 240+ drives are where the good specs start.

Obviously if you can't afford an additional 10 euros then that's totally irrelevant. Use your drive well and save your pennies until you can get a good one. I'd recommend a Crucial MX100 256 gb as a minimum and combining that with a 7200 rpm hdd. You should be looking at somewhere around 200 euros for that combo and that should last you years.

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There was an Intel 40GB one but that was only SATA2

If you look at the price/GB it really doesn't make sense

Yeah what Dimwitted said you should get at least 120 for the Price/GB to make sense, and 256GB is the best value right now, but if you really, really can't then get a 60GB Transcend or SanDisk drive (Check the benchmarks on anything you buy though)

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On 8/24/2014 at 9:03 AM, Bradley said:

 

 

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60GB is very small is you,re looking for Gaming. you need higher specs. try using Imdisk or buy a new disk for your Laptop. around 100 GB is good. don,t pick 128GB

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On 8/24/2014 at 9:10 AM, Bradley said:

Would that affect windows performance?

Microsoft made NTFS, if it does I would imagine in a good way.

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