60GB Patriot Pyro 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives SSD: Patriot Pyro PP60GS25SSDR $34, or Patriot Pyro PPSE60GS25SSDR $39 after $20 Rebate

Quote from homersapien : You're setting yourself up for a world of hurt. They will blissfully fill that OS drive with all sorts of apps, docs, and other crap until they get to the point where they are calling you every 5 minutes to come over and "fix it."

Nah, just make sure to move the "Libraries" in Win7 (documents/pictures/music/videos/downloads/etc) to the storage drive and his parents probably will never get past 35GB on the SSD.

I bought both. I figured worst case, I can sell one for $60 and basically end up getting the other for almost nothing. Thanx.

Quote from eibgrad : How well would this work w/ say XP or Linux wrt TRIM? Would I have to manage it manually?

TRIM should be supported in most recent flavors of Linux, may have to enable it though.


btw now Free econ ship on the SE version

Eh, I've been looking for a way to breathe life into an aging X61T. This seems like an inexpensive way. I bought one.

So its probably not worth mentioning but on CC and compusa sites they give you a 'free' 6 month anti virus program. Its called Total Defense Anti-Virus 6-month subscription with ARS software download [compusa.com]. It is supposedly valued at $25. It auto adds it to the cart for either drive on those sites.




edit well that was fast...and a waste of 5 minutes...since you guys already SDed the drive OOS

Quote from Trolololo : what can i do with 60gb? use it as my desktop OS system and the rest on a slave 1TB?

Has anyone had experience with Intel's "Rapid Storage Caching" or "Smart Response Technology?" My new MOBO has this capability which promises to significanly speed up HDD access (in RAID of course). These SSDs seem the perfect size for this!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/24...ology.html

Quote from blakezilla : So its probably not worth mentioning but on CC and compusa sites they give you a 'free' 6 month anti virus program. Its called Total Defense Anti-Virus 6-month subscription with ARS software download [compusa.com]. It is supposedly valued at $25. It auto adds it to the cart for either drive on those sites. edit well that was fast...and a waste of 5 minutes...since you guys already SDed the drive OOS

that software is crap tbh

I removed it from my cart lol

Quote from poohbie : Nah, just make sure to move the "Libraries" in Win7 (documents/pictures/music/videos/downloads/etc) to the storage drive and his parents probably will never get past 35GB on the SSD.

I'm commuting so I'm right next door anyway.

But nah, it should be fine since my parents don't install any apps (except on android) nor is there anything on the PC besides a million PDFs and quickbooks. Otherwise they just mainly use the laptop for everything else.

But thanks for the tip, I'll keep that in mind.

Quote from robinski_ : that software is crap tbh I removed it from my cart lol

I figured as much...but it auto added on those sites. Anybody know if you get free shipping with google checkout. Im trying to keep from making a TD account but the google checkout is trying to charge me 7bucks shipping.

Quote from blakezilla : I figured as much...but it auto added on those sites. Anybody know if you get free shipping with google checkout. Im trying to keep from making a TD account but the google checkout is trying to charge me 7bucks shipping.

shipping is usually bugged out if you use other payment options, TD/CC/CompUSA are all POS companies tbh, not much they can do right lol

Quote from monkeygohan : Thinking of doing exactly that for WHS 2011. The rest would be on NAS.

Doesn't WHS 11 require 160GB for the install?

in 4 1 of non SE version.
was going to order both but thanks to you greedy SDers the SE version is OOS.
$35 AR with Free S&H

I've been using a 60gig SSD on my main PC for like the past 2 years and no problem with space OS and program wise. I got Win7 ultimate, and bunch of program in it. now I'm at 4gigs free left. but I use a 2nd drive for data storage anyway.

Just to warn you guys. with windows updates it seems to bloat the size of the install.
You can save space on your HD by:
- disabling restore feature
- disable hibernation
- have less ram (yes have less ram)

ex. if you don't need 8gb of ram stick with 4gb as when the system runs it will create a hibernation & standby file that is == in size to your ram. So if you have 4gb ram your stnd by and hiber file will take up 8gb of drive space.

if you have 8gb ram standby and hiber file will take 16gb of drive space.

Thanks! I got one of the non-SE drives, I just got a nice Crucial 256GB SSD for my MacBook, looking to use this one for something else. For $33 I don't have to decide just yet what machine I'll put it in, but it's good to have a spare SSD, even if just to put an OS on and install in a laptop as needed!

Also as others have noted, the SE drive is Out of Stock

any links on how to move OS to new SSd w/o doing fresh install???
thanks folks!