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hi guys, would pretty much need advise on which capacity to purchase.
I am all set to buy the crucial m4 (good reviews and recommendations by friends) however, I m at lost of what capacity would suffice my needs and I'd need advise. - i will be using my old HDD as the media storage drive.
I will be running windows home premium 7..
-starcraft 2
-ms office
-adobe creative suite
-audio recording software: cubase 5
*edit* yes, i will be putting at least the creative suite and starcraft 2 on the ssd as i fire up these programs just about everyday (i m a web developer)
would appreciate if anyone can give me some feedback if a 64gb is fine to go with or would a 128 be absolutely necessary?
thanks in advanced!
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IMO, if you don't do a lot of video recording or have A LOT of games you always want to play, which by your description it doesnt sound like you do then i think 64gb is fine, you can go for 128gb if you really feel that you'll run out the 64gb too fast, i'm guessing you're not going to be putting your audio files or office files on the ssd right?
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If you intent to put SC2 and the Adobe stuff on the SSD (I'd do it too), then you'll need 128 GB.
If you only put Windows and some smaller programs on it (like Office) then 64 GB would be enough.
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You need 128gb.
Windows 7 is ~20GB. Service packs will add to this.
Starcraft II is 10GB. Expansions will put it at 20GB or so.
Adobe Creative suite is around 25GB iirc.
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Don't bother putting SC2 on an SSD. Even if you load faster than your opponent you still have to wait for their load. Not only that but it's not like you're loading every few minutes, you do it once per match, and only just before it starts. There's really no practical benefit.
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I bought a m4 crucial last week. a firmware update to kill the "bluescreen after 5000 hours" came out these days too. it is the 128 gb version.
All regularly used programms and games ( starcraft 2, bf 3 and steam) are installed on this drive. i have ~ 50 gb of free space.
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On January 18 2012 02:58 skyR wrote:
You need 128gb.
Windows 7 is ~20GB. Service packs will add to this.
Starcraft II is 10GB. Expansions will put it at 20GB or so.
Adobe Creative suite is around 25GB iirc.
I was under the impression that the expansions would be on different clients? And i'm also assuming that, once you have HoTS or Legacy of The Void you're not going to play the original or the predecessing expansion after the next expansion comes out.
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I don't believe Blizzard ever stated expansions are stand alone games.
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Im on a (fairly dated now) 60GB HDD with 10gig spare atm - got windows and sc2 on it, plus misc little programs like firefox, graphics drivers, anti-spyware stuff.
Overall i'm pretty pleased with it.
You might wanna consider one of those SSDs that slots right into a PCi slot on your mobo, afaik the transfer rate is ridiculous on those ones.
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On January 18 2012 04:33 Zrana wrote:
You might wanna consider one of those SSDs that slots right into a PCi slot on your mobo, afaik the transfer rate is ridiculous on those ones.
You know what else is ridiculous on those ones? the prices, not to mention it's not worth the extra $ for minimal performance gains when with SSD's, capacity is the biggest issue (due to pricing) since they're already lightning fast... SATA is the way to go...
What typical consumer can even say that some of the fastest consumer SSD's today e.g. Kingston HyperX aren't fast enough???
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so with the starcraft2 expansions space issue somewhat put aside, am i right to say a 64gb suffices my needs?
i wont be using the entire adobe creative suite as well.. just a few selected programs in it i.e fireworks, flash, photoshop, illustrator and dreamweaver mainly.
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Ive got a 128gb drive, can only access 118gb of that, windows 7 is 22gb, SC2 is 10.5, then there is the page file and tons of random stuff like the "Users" folder that seems to like blowing up to 10+gb even if you are careful with saving files etc. Ive got TF2 and Tribes Ascend on my SSD too, but other than that, nothing major and i only have like 5gb room left even after going through drive several times and deleting what i can with a secondary HDD for storage.
64gb seems a little risky, but go for it if you are ok with being super careful about every file that is ever saved on your PC
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Page file is suppose to be turned off. Download, documents, picture, and other useless folders in the Users directory is suppose to be moved off the SSD. Cache can also be moved off. But sure if you're too lazy to manage something so simple than you are going to need as much space as you can get. It's not even about being careful since you won't ever be downloading to your SSD once you take two minutes to set folder locations.
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thanks for the suggestions, that means we're currently looking at 64gb.. btw skyR, will turning off page file be detrimental to windows performance in anyway? Thanks 
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No. If you run out of RAM than you need to buy more RAM.
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Windows 7 reduces down to ~13gb when you move the pagefile to another drive (I have it on a raptor).
On January 18 2012 03:15 G_G wrote:
Don't bother putting SC2 on an SSD. Even if you load faster than your opponent you still have to wait for their load. Not only that but it's not like you're loading every few minutes, you do it once per match, and only just before it starts. There's really no practical benefit.
SC2 loads so fast for me that when watching replay packs, it's faster to alt-f4 and open the next replay from the folder than search for it through Starcraft. Putting SC2 on my SSD was the best thing I've done in a long time.
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