looking for an ssd for windows7 build

[sparks]

I can't afford a 120+ Gig drive right now...new build and about out of money.

But with win7 only on the boot drive and trying to keep everything else on reg hd's what is the size that I can get by with 30G or 40G or?

ps do you keep the swap file on the ssd as well?

 

[Damar]

I'd probably look at the Intel 40GB SSD if I were you.

Microsoft themselves say to leave the swap file on the SSD.

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.

In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that

Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.
In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.