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Hard drive for OS?
chipman
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Slight panic today as I booted up my PC to get a message: "Windows 7 RC will expire in 13 days" - I'd completely forgotten this was going to happen.
Conveniently this has coincided with me getting a free copy of Win7 Pro from college, but I really hate the idea of wiping the disk without any means to recover the data if I forget to keep something, so I'm considering getting a new hard drive.
Basically I want to know of any good drives - they'll probably be used just for the OS as I already have plenty of space on my current drive (1tb), I was wondering about solid state drives but the price of them astounded me - I thought I'd be able to get a really tiny one (less than 50gb) for a reasonable price but apparently not.
And before the newegg links roll in, I'm in the UK. :P
Conveniently this has coincided with me getting a free copy of Win7 Pro from college, but I really hate the idea of wiping the disk without any means to recover the data if I forget to keep something, so I'm considering getting a new hard drive.
Basically I want to know of any good drives - they'll probably be used just for the OS as I already have plenty of space on my current drive (1tb), I was wondering about solid state drives but the price of them astounded me - I thought I'd be able to get a really tiny one (less than 50gb) for a reasonable price but apparently not.
And before the newegg links roll in, I'm in the UK. :P
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Kingston is now a vendor/provider for Intel's excellent SSD's (which include TRIM support which is automagically supported in Win 7), and the bundle is supposed to include software for migrating the data from you current drive to the new SSD.
OK, I lied: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139137
$275 for 128GB is starting to look very tempting. For an SSD that almost seems (dare I say it) "affordable".
While that's certainly good value for the capacity, I don't actually need that amount of space - on the link you've given me it seems it goes as low as 80gb although this link implies it may go as low as 40gb, yet I can't actually find the 40gb one being sold anywhere.
When it comes down to it I'll probably just buy a small, cheaper hard drive - I don't intend to spend much and I'd predicted solid state drive prices to go down further than they actually have.
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