Guys, is 120GB SSD enough space for Primary OS for Win 7, normal programs & run few games?

yup, using intel 330 120GB, have few games installed, left bout 60+GB

Absolute fastest 60GB SSD now is the Samsung 830, but that might be quite hard to get and is quite pricey.
For much less of the cost and almost as fast as the Samsung 830, you can't go wrong with the Intel 330 or Crucial M4.

Other Sandforce based SSDs (other than the Intel 330) are like the Mushkin Chronos (cheapest 60GB asynchronous SSD out there now I think, under RM250 can get), Corsair Force 3, OCZ Agility 3 and so on.

My suggestion, if you can.. go with the Intel 330, RM280-RM300 is a great choice as Intel's reliability is legendary (there aren't a lot of error reports from 330 users thus far yet).
Unlike other SF based SSDs under the RM300 mark, Intel uses synchronous memory instead of asynchronous like other cheaper SF based SSDs.

Otherwise, the Crucial M4 is a great alternative too.

i think lowyat plaza not much shop got carry crucial SSD, that day when i bought my intel 330, didn't manage to find shop that carries Crucial M4 :\

there's an alternative; garage sales.
got some sellers offer crucial m4

I was thinking getting crucial m4 also for tomorrow.. But I'll guess can pick my second choice which is the intel 330.

The bigger capacity of the SSD will perform better 120GB < 240GB

Thinking to move on to SSD. But i'm still cannot find HDD caddy for my current notebook HDD. Planning to remove the DVD drive and use it as external USB drive. But this will contribute to much heavier notebook.

What was the damage! (price)

This post has been edited by KenDiriwan: May 18 2012, 06:34 PM

Do you really need your DVD drive that badly?
Most programs or movies now a days can be gotten digitally anyways.

Unless you're going on business where you might have to use DVDs for presentation or something. But even then, you could always result into using flash drive as storage capacity medium anyways.

My notebook is setup like this now:
- HDD slot using a 2.5" 7200rpm 500GB HDD
- Removed DVD drive and installed a Crucial M4 64GB in its place.

Windows installed on the SSD obviously and all my other files is on the 500GB.
If I need to install huge programs (like photoshop or microsoft office or games even), I would then just get the .iso files and use PowerISO to install it on the HDD.

To me honestly, it's the best way to use a notebook today.

Thanks for replying. No, i don't need the DVD drive that badly but i might use it to burn something sometimes. That's why I want to find external enclosure for it. About the SSD, I also plan to do like what you did with your notebook, put my existing 640GB for my data and SSD for windows and applications.

Currently using SSD on my office laptop (Lenovo X220). Not a high end one, 80GB Intel branded.

What laptop do u use?

Asus N45SF. The spec can be found on my siggy. Thanks

should be using 12.7mm caddy bay

I tried to search last time, but not available in Malaysia.

Fellows, i just bought a new crucial m4 SSD 128 GB and just for your information, i am new to ssd. I followed the guide in the first page and i get this benchmark, is the entire benchmark normal? (see attachment) or it should be better than what it shown here? I wonder if i will be able to get better benchmark if I use a 6gb sata cable ? I am currently attaching the ssd to a 6gb port but, I dont think its a 6gb sata cable ... THX IN ADVANCE !




This post has been edited by gn9746203: May 18 2012, 11:37 PM


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yes it does , try search at garage sales

by default AS SSD and CrystaldiskMark write random data to your SSD to perform benchmark, its slower due to the data is incompressible(if im correct...)
If you want more accurate benchmark on AS SSD, click the "Tools" on the menu and run Compression-Benchmark.
For CrystalDiskMark, click the "File" on the menu > Test Data, All (0x00) or All (0xFF), both prolly same i think
The benchmarks numbers will be higher than "Default (Random)"
Its the same for ATTO bench.

as for the SATA 3GB/s cable vs 6GB/s cable, unless you are using cheapo cables, there is no difference between them in terms of performance
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/...a-difference-97

It seems you are running on Marvel SATA chipset. What motherboard are you using? You would get slightly better performance if you plug your SSD on Intel SATA chipset.

how should i change it to intel sata chipset ? sorry for the noob question
btw my mobo is rampage iii extreme
according to my bob specification, both 6gb port is marvell chipeset

This post has been edited by gn9746203: May 19 2012, 01:27 PM