This seems the closest and most recent thing to a hardware thread without invading someone's build thread..
So I've been looking to buy an ssd for a while now, was planning on buying a small and cheap one and use it for the OS and maybe some games. Been kinda weary though since I keep seeing reviews/comments about having issues on the firmware? side of things. I'm also have pretty limited experience in installing hardware... with an ssd would I simply be connecting the SATA cable and placing it in the hard drive slot/mounting it to some kind of bracket? I'm also wondering if there's anything I should know about installing OS's on blank hard drives... as I've never done it before.
Current Rig ignoring the graphics card
Currently I'm looking at these 2 hard drives though I haven't done that much research, any advice/suggestions would be welcome
Patriot Torqx 2 Solid State Drive - 64GB, 2.5", SATA - 60$
This ones in the price range I wanted, has favourable reviews although I'm not a big fan of Mail in rebates.
SanDisk 120GB Solid State Drive - 120GB, SATA 6 Gb/s, 2.5"
This one would probably give me more leeway for putting non-essentials on the ssd, it shares "roughly" the same gb per $ and seems to be faster. Also has no MiR.
OCZ Agility 3 120GB SATA3 6GB/s, Read: 525MB/s, Write: 500MB/s I think I've settled on this one
Thanks in advance.