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[Burned_Follower]

http://www.bestbuy.c...SD%29&cp=1&lp=4

I was told a few months back that the hard drive (in the link above) would make a good "boot" drive. But since the PC i'm building is strictly for MWO and MWLL, and this hard drive is 240GB, can this also be my C drive as well? Do i need to add any other kind of hard drive to my pc if this is the only one installed in it?

Just curious because i've never used this specific kind of hard drive before.

Edited by XxDRxDEATHxX, 29 August 2012 - 06:09 PM.

[Greyrook]

You boot drive is usually your C:\ drive. The solid state thing is usually done to hold the operating system, and then you have a large HDD for programs. But, if you can fit everything you want on the solid state drive, you're gold.

[Lorokin]

Yes it will work. And typically speaking your boot and C:\ drive are the same thing for Windows. Unless you change the drive letter yourself.

It's a hard drive, it's just a solid state hard drive. They're faster. But you're paying for it.

[Vulpesveritas]

If you can, I recommend that you get a Samsung 830 drive instead, as they are more stable than the sandforce drives like the Patriot, while being as fast or faster in many situations.

Otherwise, you're fine.

[SakuranoSenshi]

The reason people talk about having a separate drive to boot from and then another for applications and so on, is that you can have the boot drive optimized for a quick boot and nothing else and also keep it small, then have another much larger drive which is chosen for capacity over raw speed.

Specifically, a lot of people will pick a 'solid state drive' for the Windows installation to boot from and a traditional mechanical magnetic head drive for the applications and so on. This makes the machine boot lightning fast and mitigates the downsides of 'SSD' tech, specifically that writing tends to be much slower than reading and that they have much shorter lifetimes if regularly written to.

[Quinn Allard]

Honostly dude, you dont need a SSD for this game.