Amount of ssd

[todd89]

Shall I go 80gb intel and 1tb caviar black or 120gb kingston and 500gb caviar black. Money is sort of a factor. I just know that the Kingston is better value over the intel with better write and read speeds but of course the only downside is that you have to go 120gb with Kingston

I will probs only have 3 or 4 games on the ssd plus os, ms student, iTunes and avast

 

[Petchi b]

To be honest I wouldn't bother with an SSD until they drop in price, still far too expensive. If you really want one though, try and get as big as possible to get more use from it - 120GB at least.

 

[NMEBowen]

depends if its the 300 series or 500 intel if your on about the 510 intel go for that hands down aslong as your not buying a ocz you should be fine.

 

[todd89]

True mate. But if I do leave it for now, can I easily send my build in to pcs to get an ssd fitted as the 1st hard drive and transfer os etc on it?

 

[todd89]

depends if its the 300 series or 500 intel if your on about the 510 intel go for that hands down aslong as your not buying a ocz you should be fine.

The 510 series intel 120gb is more expensive than the Kingston 120gb. SO I can only stretch to Kingston.

 

[tom_gr7]

as long as you have the warranty, if anything happens to the ssd, pcs will replace it the next day. Well thy did for me, whn my ssd died.

 

[todd89]

As long as the £5 extra silver warranty will allow me in the next year to easily send it to pcs for them to put me an ssd as the first drive and shift my os and games to it then that's fab.

 

[Rakk]

As long as the £5 extra silver warranty will allow me in the next year to easily send it to pcs for them to put me an ssd as the first drive and shift my os and games to it then that's fab.

A warranty doesn't normally cover adding bits, warranties are normally for fixes/repairs etc as far as I know.

New hard drives are pretty easy to add yourself anyway, though you may need some external software (like Norton Ghost) to move your OS across

 

[todd89]

A warranty doesn't normally cover adding bits, warranties are normally for fixes/repairs etc as far as I know.

New hard drives are pretty easy to add yourself anyway, though you may need some external software (like Norton Ghost) to move your OS across

Thanks for the advice. I'll have a think

 

[tom_gr7]

yeah its really easily to add a new drive to ya pc, mega easy.

 

[Frenchy]

Also as gorman said in another thread earlier, you may want to consider the SSD at the moment as the HDDs are a lot more expensive than they normally would be. Obviously if you're waiting a whle then maybe not but for me the SSD makes a massive difference to load times, well worth it for me.