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Small ssd for W7 systems disk

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IanWorthington

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Hi

I'm looking to put a smallish SSD in a W7 system as system, paging, and cache disk for photo editing.

I realise the technology is young, prices will fall and performance improve, so I'm looking to spend the least that will give me reasonable performance for now.

That seems to be around the $2/GB point at the moment, and the Corsair Force seem to have good performance on more than just sequential access measurements.

What do people think of the Corsair Force CSSD-F90GB2-BRKT 90GB drive at $190? I'm thinking that will probably be big enough for W7 (for now) if I keep all my apps and data on another drive.

Any better options (price or performance) anyone would recommend?

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I don't know about better price/performance, but 90GB is more than enough. I used to do it on 32GB. Even 64GB is comfortable. Just keep a NAS around.
 
I probably need a bit more as I want to keep the LR catalogs and caches on that. And I gather I don't want it to get anywhere near full?

Why the NAS? Just general backup? Or..?

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I have a 120GB Vertex 2 in my work computer with a 1TB spindle drive. With all my code, graphics, databases, programs and Win7 I'm not above 70GB used. Optimal space usage is to stay below 80% with no manual over-provisioning. So stay under/around 70GB or so and you'll be fine. Go above that and you'll still be fine, the performance drop isn't all that severe.
 
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