Well...Earlier before I built me computer, somebody suggested I buy the SSD, which is about 80gb. That's awesome and indeed the PC boots within 25 seconds. However, as more and more software is installed esp those for encoding videos...the 80gb is not enough, and therefore I'd like to upgrade this to 120gb or 160gb and I know intel SSD is the best bet...but it is too expensive...So I would like to know if there is any alternative brand that sells cheaper but is as good as intel?
That probably is your best bet; not much reason to buy a slow SSD unless it is for a laptop that sees lots of vibration.
Well...I do not really trust those regular mechanical drive because that happens three times to my old computer. The harddrive went dead so all info was lost so it had to be reformatted and so... Sammorris what did ya mean by program that u need the fastest? Did you mean to install those program there? Whatever you install, it just has to go through the C drive.
No it doesn't, you can install the vast majority of programs to any drive you like, even drives over a network that aren't in the same room as the PC you're using. You just hit the 'custom' button and change "C:/Program Files" to something else!
I know but consider those registry thingy...that's a pain in the neck when you delete or uninstall your programs or applications. Some of the them(the residues) cannot be deleted.
It doesn't matter where you install the program, when you uninstall it, it deletes the registry entires, whether the program's on C:/, D:/ or Z:/. The only reason the registry entries don't go is when you delete the program's files yourself instead of uninstalling it. That doesn't change with drive letter.
If your that worried about the registry keys then maybe you need YourUninstaller. If the drive is dead a format wont fix it so it doesnt sound like the drive was dead. Now just because your old mechanical drives "died" doesnt mean they all do. Perhaps they were cheap HDDs? Perhaps a bad batch? With out specifics who knows, but in terms of high capacity storage you have no choice but to use mechanical HDDs for now unless you want to spend a few grand and really as reliable as SSDs are, they can still die. Plus the price to storage ratio inst worth it. Your looking at about $100 or so for a 1 TB WD Caviar Green or Black and $4,000 for a 1 TB SSD.
