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[WoodenMarker]

I would recommend this but with a 1tb hybrid drive instead of the ssd as your laptop is older im guessing wont have usb 3.0 so the speed of the internal drive will be better.

If you get a new system to use I would recommend getting an AMD APU from what ive seen at the very low end there better than the intel equivalent for price or try get somthing 2nd hand(im using a AMD Athlon II X2 3.1Ghz with 8 GB RAM for my nas it works great i also have over 10tb of hardrives in with windows 8 parity bit)

A sshd is not anywhere near an ssd in speed and would kind of remove the point of getting something other than a normal hdd for the minecraft server.

As for the cpu, the faster Ivy bridge cores would be better than an APU's at the same price range.

[hunterman1043]

Yea it is possible to dual boot, however the only caveat to this would be that for a "server" it is recommended to always have it running and booted into the operating system so it can serve what you need on the fly on the go... If ur booted into the windows partition then none of the apache protocols can function since its out of Linux. So for example, you can't try to host a minecraft server and play at the same time unless they have a Linux version or you run it through wine. I don't play Minecraft so idk about that.

But yea to answer ur question, I only use a 30 gig for my server and even that is too much IMO.... Just the smallest I could get my hands on internally without going to a flash drive.... If you are going to have windows on it as well just for the lulz, I would prolly jump up to like 120 gig just to give head room for windows to breathe. A 120 gig ssd is pretty cheap right now..... Only like 99 bucks.

[hunterman1043]

The thing you gotta play attention to the most is ur cooling situation.... Unless ur laptop has a baller cooling solution, then I'd suggest also picking up a $20 Logitech cooling pad... Those work pretty well and are surprisingly sturdy.

[hunterman1043]

One last thing... Sorry for triple posts but I thought it pertinent to mention the install process for a setup like this... When you get all ur parts together, install windows FIRST. Then partition the drive using disk manager in windows. Once it's allocated as free space on the drive, boot from the Ubuntu disk or flash drive depending what you make... Install Linux in the free space.... This order is important because Linux uses a boot loader called grub, or grub2 nowadays which supersedes the windows master boot record so that it'll give you the option which OS to boot into. If you install windows after you install ubuntu or whatever ur pretty much screwed when trying to boot to the other partition.... So pay attention to the order you install the OS's.

[Barracuda]

One last thing... Sorry for triple posts but I thought it pertinent to mention the install process for a setup like this... When you get all ur parts together, install windows FIRST. Then partition the drive using disk manager in windows. Once it's allocated as free space on the drive, boot from the Ubuntu disk or flash drive depending what you make... Install Linux in the free space.... This order is important because Linux uses a boot loader called grub, or grub2 nowadays which supersedes the windows master boot record so that it'll give you the option which OS to boot into. If you install windows after you install ubuntu or whatever ur pretty much screwed when trying to boot to the other partition.... So pay attention to the order you install the OS's.

Thanks for your help i just installed a  new 120gb samsung sdd. I installed windows 7 everyting works great except my laptop cannot detect its internal speakers. I partitioned off 50gb with the windows manager and am waiting for ubuntu 12.4 to download now. Also purchased a coolermaster cooling pad for cheap, i picked that one because you can move the 2 fans anywere you want. Thanks agian, now to figure out how to fix my speakers and install ubuntu.