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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: 4pbears on June 30, 2011, 04:39:46 am

Title: whats a good size ssd drive that can i put in my z68 board?
Post by: 4pbears on June 30, 2011, 04:39:46 am

i want too use 2 ssd's in raid 0 on my new gigabyte board.  i've heard that the max size is 60 gbs, is that true, because i would like to installr 2 drives between 80 - 100 gbs sides card.



                                                                                                                              thanks.


                                                                                                                              dave.

Title: Re: whats a good size ssd drive that can i put in my z68 board?
Post by: Aussie Allan on June 30, 2011, 09:17:49 am

 hayDave!..........how they hangin! ;)

  The sky and your pockets is your limits..........to tailor your PC for a fast OS (Operating system C:) drive remember all you really need is enough room for the operating system and maybe a few programs........everything else from program through to photo storage can be put on slower drives


    The OS takes up about 55Gb.....a few programs ....maybe 15 to 20gb...........so 80 to 100Gb of fast drive space can be a workable minimum

  This way you can spend a little or a lot depending on what sort of speed you need or want........need and want are very different!

  Do you need or just want 7 to 800 mb/s read and write speeds ?

 Aussie Allan

Title: Re: whats a good size ssd drive that can i put in my z68 board?
Post by: Dark Mantis on June 30, 2011, 02:58:06 pm

As already commented on the crap that you were told initially about there being a 60 GB maximum is just that. You can use as much as you can afford to put in. The larger the SSD the faster the speed in general. If your pockets are deep enough I woulkd suggest a pair of OCZ Vertex3 drives of about 256 GB but that is not going to be cheap. the next size down would be the 128 GB versions and I reckon these are a more realistic device. Run as RAID0 it would give you a blazing fast 256GB roughly of bootable storage.

You could of course go for the OCZ Revo2 drive which is a PCIE device and as such is even faster than SATA SSDs. It isn't cheap but is the fastest thing available. I have just put a 100GB one in my system and am getting roughly 680MBs write asnd 740MBs read speeds.