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PCs & Mobiles Forum - I almost bought an SSD - Page 1
Elite Donator
I was in trigger happy spending mode, but put the 'safety' on at the last minute 
I'm getting a little fed up with my desktop PC, which I don't really want to spend money on, since I want to replace it completely, but at the same time thinking "well, it still runs OK, so I'll just wait till part of it fails" 
Anyway, I just saw an OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD drive on Dabs.com for £130 and got to the point of selecting a delivery address before stopping and thinking about it.
At the moment I have 2 WD 250GB drives in a striped RAID array as my boot drive, but it still feels slow to load everything.
I'm going to do a full re-install this week (putting in the spare 2GB of RAM I have to make 6GB) then install Win7 x64 and see if that makes things any better.
If I still feel like it's a little slow I think I may pull that trigger. My thinking is that I can always use the SSD in the next machine (whatever that may be) or my Macbook Pro once the warranty is up on it...2 years and 7 months to go.
Apologies for the random post...I've had a few beers.
Elite
Probably cheaper to buy a few more beers and slow your reaction time down 
Elite Donator
I ordered one tonight (the Crucial M4 128GB).
I re-built my RAID0 array tonight, and then installed Win7 64bit.
Even on a fresh install it seemed way too slow 
I figured that I can stick it in the desktop, then when I can clarify whether upgrading the HD in my MacbookPro voids the warranty or not (there's no clear answer that I can find) I may well put the SSD in to that.
Elite Donator
Every time I read one of your PC/Mac hardware or software exploits you scare me
Jimbo : oÞ
"There's that word again... is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?"
Elite Donator
LOL
Why's that Jim?
Elite Donator
you could always stick it in your PS3
saying that, it wouldn't get much use would it
Ste
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Elite Donator
Quote:
ste_p0270 says...
saying that, it wouldn't get much use would itYou're not wrong.
I just can't be arsed with that at the moment...although I just saw that LoveFilm have shipped "BodyCount" to me to play on there.
I loved "Black" on the PS2, one of the best single-player FPS games there ever was (in my humble opinion) and this is by the same creator I believe.
Haven't read any reviews of it, so it'll probably be crap!
Elite Donator
reviews are not good mate, unfortunately.
resistance 3 looks good though.
Ste
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Elite Donator
Quote:
Miles says...
Why's that Jim?I think there are three words that could explain this much better than anything else I could type...
Doc
Emmett
Brown
Jimbo : oÞ
"There's that word again... is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?"
Elite Donator
Great Scott!
(And that wasn't talking about you )
This item was edited on Tuesday, 6th September 2011, 14:22
