[OFB Cafe] SSDs

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Sun Nov 27 23:19:05 CST 2011


On 11/27/2011 11:23 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>> Thoughts on capacity and, most importantly, brand? Would the Crucial
>> >  drive be a good choice?  Circuit City has the 512 GB one for $729.  I've
>> >  seen the 256 GB one for well under $400...
> I have an IBM 120gb sata6 in my recent desktop and in March it was +$400.
> I only use it for system, everything else is on mirrored sata3 2T drives.
> Go for the 256gb but take care what you put onto it, ie: system files,
> executables and temp and log files.  That will give your system the
> greatest lift  :^)

TigerDirect has 1T SATA (6G) drives from Seagate and WD for under $100. 
I have 1 of each.....BOTH are "screamers."

Fred

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