http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/ Engadget Comments for SanDisk ships 60GB / 120GB G3 SSD to North America and Europe http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
People regularly install Windows 7 on 30GB and 40GB drives.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
Strange that, I roll with a 80GB SSD and I'm using about 20GB all said. That's just Win7 and select applications.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
60gb SSD here, 82 programs listed in Programs and Features including MS Office, Visual Studio and Creative Suite, and I currently have 10.7GB spare and 9GB taken up by media files.
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Maybe Windows Installer is your problem, I ran W7 beta then RC for a year on a 20 gig partition with no problems. ]]>Feb 23rd 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
Combined w/ a regular 2TB platter storage drive, there is no need for anything larger. Put your hands up and step away from the crack pipe sir!]]>Feb 23rd 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
By the time I install Office 2010 and VS2010 when they release in the next couple of months, I'm sure it'll be full.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Maybe your son is telling you that's why the hard drive is full so you won't try to find his pr0n collection!]]>Feb 23rd 2010 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Nah, all the pr0n is in a TrueCrypt volume on another drive.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Sheesh, why do you noobs keep coming up with stupid ideas. Almost 14GB of it is the Winsxs folder. On Vista/7 this stores historical versions of every every dll/system file installed on your PC to allow backwards compatibility with programs that use common dlls in case a new program updates them and breaks an old one.

If you install a lot of "system" software especially Microsoft products that have thousands of shared libraries, there will be multiple copies of these files. There is nothing that can be done about this. You need 100GB to be safe if you have a lot of software.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
"Sheesh, why do you noobs keep coming up with stupid ideas."

Perhaps, they see you making the ignorant assumption that everyone's needs are the same as yours, and assume you're ignorant about other things as well.

See what assuming gets us? ]]>Feb 23rd 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
Someone should slap the greed out of broli. Total sales might not cover R&D plus production even at that selling price, in simple words, a loss making product, thus are they greedy or you?]]>Feb 23rd 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
Do companies not give you guys random R/W speeds, or do you not understand that that's what's important about SSDs? ]]>Feb 23rd 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
Portable device with a hard disk is not a good match.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
(I also note this doesn't say which controller chip is used, which is presumably the most important factor.)]]>Feb 23rd 2010 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/me thinks so, but since sata I is only 1,5gbit you are probably stuck somewhere under 150mbyte/s]]>Feb 23rd 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
this is my motherboard: http://www.pugetsystems.com/store/item.php?cat=Motherboard&id=3915&com=75435b24

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"it takes a minute to copy a couple of gigs of files to a USB drive"

A new SSD probably won't change that. The NAND inside the USB stick and the USB connection itself are likely worse bottlenecks than your HDD. ]]>Feb 23rd 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
I couldn't tell you, HDDs make noise some times.
As long as your data is backed up, you just have to decide which is a bigger hassle, replacing the drive because it might fail, or letting it fail(if it does) and replacing it then.

Personally, at this point unless you need a new drive I'd wait until Intel releases their G3 SSDs in 8 months or so.
That or buy a 40GB X25-V, if it's big enough for your needs. ]]>Feb 24th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 24th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
If you are comfortable with the price I think that the G2 80GB Intel SSD is the way to go. They're around $250-270 online. Newegg currently has them for $220.

For that price however, you can get a lot more storage with an HDD.

I recommend reading some of the SSD articles on Anandtech.
Then decide which way you want to go. ]]>Feb 25th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 23rd 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
I mean, will the boot time increase a lot?]]>Feb 24th 2010 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/
Sorry for the double post but by "the boot time increase", I actually mean will the boot time DECREASE.

Forgive my idiocy.]]>Feb 24th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 24th 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/Feb 27th 2010 8:58AM