[H] Hard drive weirdness and Shopping for an SSD

[Steve Tomporowski]

I had a little weirdness the other day on my main system.  Started to 
boot it, ran around to get ready for work, came back and the system was 
locked at the pulsing Windows logo, actually that was the screen, but 
the logo was gone.  Hit cntrl-alt-del and the system restarted.  I 
didn't quite look at it, but it looked like the system did not detect 
the boot drive.  It gave me the 'Boot drive not found, insert disk" 
message.  I turned off power, and reseated all the drive cables, then 
had more to do to get ready for work, came back and there was a message 
about how the system couldn't boot, press this button and it'll try to 
fix it.  Hit the button, went off for breakfast.  Came back and since 
that time, every boot has been successful.

Have no clue as to what was wrong, but I'm figuring it's time to change 
the boot drive, so I'm thinking SSD.  All I need is enough room for the 
operating system and applications, so I'm betting that a 64GB is big 
enough?  Then, of course, which brand is a good one to get?  I was 
looking at the Corsair 64GB Newegg has for just over $100.  It's rated 5 
eggs.  Good One?

Thanks...Steve