Hi Tony,
I've put 3 of the new Crucial M4 512G's into my notebook and have been *really* happy with them. Regards, Greg From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 12:43 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question Found the tom's hardware review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-ssd-320-crucial-m4-realssd-c400,29 08-6.html From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 12:28 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question Personally I decided on the 256G. And I've got the same for 3 laptops now. I don't want to have to waste my time dealing with the possibility of running out of space. BTW, there are a number of 3rd gen SSDs out now, not just the Crucial M4, although they use newer technology which is apparently not as good (cheaper but not better performing). Some of the 2nd gen drives are pretty awesome if you can get them for a good price, such as the Crucial C300 (the only 2nd gen I would buy) I read the following forum on tom's hardware. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266789-32-foot-race-vertex3-intel-crucial And a comparison site written in French (no I can't read it but google translate is my friend. If you know of a better comparison, please post it as I'm interested) http://www.hardware.fr/articles/830-7/comparatif-ssd-2011-crucial-m4-ocz-ver tex-3-intel-510-320.html T. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Siebert Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 10:22 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: SSD minimum size question I got a 120 GB SSD about 2 months ago (107 GB usable) and have been running with around 43 GB free space for most of that time. I'm careful to keep my documents and photos on another drive but I do have a frequently used XP VM on there occupying about 8 GB. If I did a cleanup I could probably get away with a 60 GB drive if I had to, but for a development machine I'd really want 120 GB. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: Incidentally, Windows 7 SP1 now installs OK on his system. It's a pity that the installer didn't give an appropriate message, instead of just terminating with some unrelated or incomprehensible message. How hard is it to say "you're out of disk space, dude"? I wouldn't have thought a 60Gb SSD was too small, though. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:18 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question We were looking for something like that, Joseph - I'll pass it on. Wading through the Power Settings didn't make that clear. (just found the same advice from Hanselman, too) _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
