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Save money by not buying a larger SSD than you need |
September 04, 2014
George Ratzlaff plans to buy an SSD to speed up his PC. How big a drive does he need?Before you buy an SSD, decide if it’s going to replace your current hard drive, or if you’ll keep both the old and new drives, letting the SSD supplement the spinning platters. If you’re supplementing, you can get away with a smaller SSD and therefore save money. (As I write this, $60 can buy you a 120GB SSD or a 2TB hard drive.)But supplementing the drive may not be practical. If you have a spare drive bay in your PC—common in desktops but rare in laptops—you can easily supplement. But if your PC has space for only one hard drive, replacing the drive will likely make more sense.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2489080/save-money-by-not-buying-a-larger-ssd-than-you-need.html#tk.rss_howto
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