Good OS drive? Three options...

[cpals]

Just looking right now, but trying to decide what I would do in the future if I wanted to upgrade my OS drive. I currently have a 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 for my OS/applications and a 1TB Samsung F3 drive for my videos/files/music/etc.

My motherboard is new and can support up to SATAIII, but I don't think that matters right now. I mainly play games and do a little video editing for my Flip camera.

Budget would be $100 or less and I'm currently using around 70GB of my 250GB currently (mostly Steam installs).

From what I can tell, these are some of my main choices currently:

1. 500GB Samsung F3 - $54.99
2. 150GB WD VelociRaptor - $99
3. 64GB Kingston SSDNow - $99

Just trying to figure out what the best size vs speed point is...

 

[RebateMonger]

I'd think you'd want your Steam installs to be on the SSD, too, and those aren't going to fit.

I'd go with the 500 GB Samsung for now and save up money for a 160 GB or so SSD a year from now.

 

[Obsoleet]

1. I'm not buying Samsung after reading this post http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1521070

2. Raptors are ridiculously loud and I wouldn't invest much in a spindle based drive with such low space

3. The SSD is not big enough for much of anything.

I'd save up and buy an Intel G3 160GB at the end of this year and use what you have now until then. If you must have something different now, people like this Western Digital. It has 64mb cache, it is SATA3Gb, dual CPUs, ect http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-533-_-Product This forum seems to like it a lot and if I didn't have a SSD, it's what I'd probably go for.