Wait, what? You have a laptop that has three hard drives in it? What laptop is that?
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) <g...@greglow.com> wrote: > 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: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > 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-c400,2908-6.html > > > > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > 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-vertex-3-intel-510-320.html > > > > T. > > > > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > 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 <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> 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: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > 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 > >
