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60GB SSD recommendation for a HTPC

  • 23-09-2013 11:38am
    #1
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone recommend a good 60GB SSD (SATA 6GB/s) 2.5 Inch Internal SSD to use in a HTPC please? Would like to get one for a good price too ;) I'd prefer to stay well away from OCZ as I've heard some horror stories about them! Are sandisk or kingston any use? I will be running Windows 7 on the drive, I assume 60gb is plenty of space just for the OS and XBMC? My media will be stored elsewhere.

    I was looking at this Sandisk - any thoughts?


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  • #2
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭livEwirE


    Anyone?


  • #3
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭Wossack


    ive an ocz onyx (iirc) in mine, which has been grand a good few years now - though very very little installed on it

    if its only going to be an xbmc box, consider openelec :)


  • #4
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    There both pretty decent budget SSDs with no known issues that I am aware of. Either would be fine I'd take the v300 myself if the specs are to believed it looks to be a good bit faster overall than the Sandisk, especially at random read/write.


  • #5
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭livEwirE


    Cheers marco_polo :)


  • #6
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭livEwirE


    Would 60gb be enough for a HTPC, was looking at 120gb but they cost an extra €40! Been looking at the Samsung 120gb 840!


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  • #7
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    livEwirE wrote: »
    Would 60gb be enough for a HTPC, was looking at 120gb but they cost an extra €40! Been looking at the Samsung 120gb 840!

    120GB would probably be ideal especially since it I assume it is the only drive that will fit in that case.

    However even you have everything installed you ought to still have in the region of 30-35 GB free with a 64GB model, so with a bit of careful space management (reduce page fine size, turn off hibernation, clearing temp files /downloads etc from time to time) you should be able to manage just fine if needs be.

    The 120GB V300 is about €10 cheaper than the 840, the 840 is certainly a faster drive but if it is just for a HPTC you'd hardly notice the difference TBH.


  • #8
    livEwirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭livEwirE


    Sound advice marco_polo...will give me something to think about. Need to keep the budget under control on this one :)


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