[Tonsh]

Originally Posted by Bloodmyst

I actually have no experience with SSD's whatsoever.... How do you set them up? Do you just simply use them as two seperate units or can you set it up in RAID? Or maybe there is some particular feature I don't know about? Also, don't SSD's only have a limited life span with the whole number of Reads/Writes they have? It's been a while since I've checked these out.

Pretty much you plug them both in, you'll have to set it as primary boot drive in BIOS to the SSD. And you install windows on the SSD leaving your other harddrive for your documents/downloads/etc... Your page file and stuff is all on the SSD so you're system just runs so fast... Install all programs etc on the SSD and your set. Just change the default locations of my documents and downloads etc to the other drive... Also 16gb ram might be overkill... 4gb would be enough, max 8gb to be safe.

After the initial OS install you'll have to go into computer management and formate the 2TB harddrive with the tool there takes 2 seconds.

[mGGDrGooSe]

Originally Posted by Tonsh

4gb would be enough, max 8gb to be safe.

IME 4GB is kind of a minimum these days. Generally I will have 3-4 word docs, 3-4 excel files, 3-10 pdfs, itunes, 3-6 webpages and maybe a database or some other technical software open plus the obligatory almost 1gb ram required just to run win7, and I'll being sit at 3-3.5 GB ram in use. with the cost of RAM and the stable emulation of 32-bit under win7 64-bit, I cant see a reason why someone wouldnt get 8gb as default these days.

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Allot of games now like to use more than 4GB. If you're going to use 64 bit. Don't bother with 4GB.