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SSD Boot Drive

Bleedingsouls
By Bleedingsouls
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I have a 128GB ssd in my laptop for a boot drive. I just have built a new desktop rig to play games on. Currently I have an A-Data SP610. I am currently using 30Gb of this drive for booting. That's it 30. I'm looking to get another SSD to put in the desktop rig. Do I really need another 128gb or could I go for something smaller say a 60gb and be fine? I would also be looking for something with a fast read speed that's not too crazy overpriced I can get a different A-Data drive that has faster read/writes than my current 128 for less that is also a 128gb drive for about 70.00 plus tax

 

Drive that I currently have: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp610ss3128gmc

 

Drive I'm looking at getting: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asx900s3128gmc

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0  Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM Video Card: Zotac GTX 970 4GB Video Card 

Case: Corsair Graphite 230T Black  Power Supply: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze 

 

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There's no point getting small SSD's unless they are boot drives. Considering GTA is just under 60gb, I'd get another 128gb. Do you not have an HDD?

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There's no point getting small SSD's unless they are boot drives. Considering GTA is just under 60gb, I'd get another 128gb. Do you not have an HDD?

I've got a 1TB WD Blue currently that all my games will be going to be installed on :) But an SSD boot drive is basically what I'm after. I do have to say that I did throw the 128 into the desktop just to see how it did and it works fine. I just want to get a new one so I can have SSDs in both my computers.

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0  Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM Video Card: Zotac GTX 970 4GB Video Card 

Case: Corsair Graphite 230T Black  Power Supply: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze 

 

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I've got a 1TB WD Blue currently that all my games will be going to be installed on :) But an SSD boot drive is basically what I'm after. I do have to say that I did throw the 128 into the desktop just to see how it did and it works fine. I just want to get a new one so I can have SSDs in both my computers.

Ah ok. I'd get a 128gb SSD because you will start to use more of it later. 

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