64GB SSD or 500GB rust drive?

[Belegost]

So I'm building a small machine for my in-laws. I grabbed a lot of nice parts on BF/CM deals, but missed the HDD.
So far looking around the usual suspects the best deal I can find on a rust drive is 500GB around 100 after tax/shipping. On the other hand a Crucial M4 64GB is only 120.

So my question is, running a Celeron 530, H61, 4GB, with Win7 home premium, does it seem like the SSD would provide a noticeable difference in internet/office light use?

Also, my Win7 Pro install burns up around 22GB with all the patches and updates, is home premium a similar footprint? I'm considering that after that, office and a few other apps, half the net drive space would be filled. Anyone think this would be too constraining? I know she doesn't watch video, listen to music or play games on her current PC, so that eliminates the big space hogs.

 

[exdeath]

M4. It will be *all* the difference.

The other stuff doesn't even matter.

With a spindle they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between this one and a 15 year old Presario.

 

[deimos3428]

HDDs are very expensive lately. I wouldn't buy one at the current prices unless it were absolutely necessary. Consequently the SSD pricing is getting more attractive by comparison.

That said, for light office use I'd be willing to consider slightly lower-performance models in exchange for more capacity at a reasonable price. You don't need the fastest ever, but 64GB might get a little tight.

Some quick newegg examples, but shop around.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227757
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226152

 

[BFG10K]

20c per GB vs $1.875 per GB; the SSD is almost ten times more per GB.

Get the HD. 64 GB will be filled up in no time, even without big files. They’ll keep having to clean out temp files because they’ll keep running out of disk space.

 

[zuffy]

SSD all the way. Pointless in getting a spindle if they are not storing any media files in the computer.

 

[Coup27]

Deffinately put in a 64GB SSD over a 500GB HDD. Unless they need a lot of storage space. Shame you didn't spring for a H67 board. Could have had SATA 6Gbps then.

 

[Puppies04]

Buy the SSD now and wait a few months for the HDD prices to drop then add it later.