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Hes probably gonna use it for everything which isn't a good idea.... you don't want to use an SSD for regular storage duties.... put your OS and your games and programs that will demand alot of disk IOPS if you are using the machine for something else like maybe heavy video editing or SQL Server or something.
Have a regular cheaper drive or set of drives in RAID where you store junk like videos, pictures, documents, porn, etc.... 20$ says the kid has like 500GB of porn hes gonna store on a fucking SSD :lmao:
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My main rig has 6 disks. 4 SSDs and 2 HDDs, and I sure as hell don't use SSDs for any long term storage.
2x 32gb SSDs R0 striped. One partition is 24gb, the other partition is ~32gb and assigned for caching duties of various programs. Because windows doesn't care about swap partitions, I just use the cache area as the allocated virtual memory. 24+32 =/= 64.. yes, that's formatted capacity, kiddies.
A 250gb OS drive, this has my Arch installation.
A 240gb Win/VM drive. I have it partitioned in 3 spots. Most for windows 8.1. A partition with virtual machines images for Win 7, although I just VM Win8.1 now that I got it just right to VM and boot without issues.
My ~user drive, which has games, downloads to be filtered, working projects, etc. 2tb.
And my secure drive, which is stacked with encryption. Has all my business and financial data, other projects that I'm not currently working on. Stuff I need to have immediate access to for various reasons, but use rarely.
Then we get into the home server, which also acts as a secure LAN/NAS. That's a whole different story, LOL. But I guess I use a SSD boot drive in that, Compactflash with a blazing fast ATA133 connection
The only place where anyone would benefit (both long and short term) with a SSD larger than 100gb, is if the price was within reason, your system acts as a quick seek file host... and that's it. Anything else, you're better off doubling your memory.