EXPIRED: Crucial M4 256GB SSD $180 shipped @ newegg!

[LumbergTech]

Technically a great price, but I'm not biting until i can pick up a 512 for $150. At that point it will be a functional drive where I don't have to move things around.

 

[007ELmO]

That might be in 2 years, Lumberg. Thoughts on that assumption?

 

[Master Sigma]

Ugh, and I bought this same drive for $295 about 4 months ago....

 

[007ELmO]

Do you guys put more than your OS on an SSD? Is 512GB truly needed? For gaming, would you say that's barely enough as some games take up huge amounts of space these days?

 

[Diogenes2]

I put more as long as there is room .. ' Need ' is subjective...

 

[kmmatney]

Do you guys put more than your OS on an SSD? Is 512GB truly needed? For gaming, would you say that's barely enough as some games take up huge amounts of space these days?

In my work laptop I have a 256GB SSD with Win 7, Office, Visual Studio (2 different versions 98 and 2010), a few games, about 20 Virtual machines (mostly running XP), and a lot of scientific papers and presentations going back 20 years. For big read-only items like games and data, I keep the folders compressed, which saves a ton of space. I keep the VM folders compressed as well. I experimented with the VMs, running in compressed and uncompressed folders, and I couldn't tell the difference in speed, so I went with compression and saved a ton of disk space.

 

[007ELmO]

I just installed Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 on a VM at work.