Tom's Hardware runs a monthly article called "best SSD for your money".  It's 
what I used in shopping for mine - they break it down by various price and size 
categories.

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Brian Weeden
Secure World Foundation
+1 202 683-8534

On Mar 1, 2012, at 15:44, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

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