@amd125:
On Amazon you have a 480 Gigas disk around 200€ and it's not a bad disk:
Crucial CT480M500SSD1 - Internal hard drive of 480 GB, SATA, 2.5": Crucial: Amazon.es: Computer
If the problem is as follows:
-I have 8Gb of RAM but my Phenom II does not accept more than 16Gb-> Mandatory change of platform because I want to put at least 32Gb… besides the CPU is a bit short.
-Motherboard with SATA2-> The motherboard must be changed because a SATA3 controller for PCI-E is not worth it
- But SATA3 makes a bottleneck for SSDs-> I wait to see the SATA Express or I mess up with a PCI-E disk that will cost me at least 500€ up to 2 or 3 thousand euros :ffu:
I liked the "Samsung XP941" with a "Lycom DT-120" adapter since it's the disk used by the new MacPro (the ones that look like the urn of Steve Jobs) but it turns out that it's not Bootable and therefore it's not useful for me to install Windows... I'm thinking about the "Plextor M6e 512Gb - PX-AG512M6e" which comes out for about 450€ and it's supposed to have the same performance as SATA Express disks because it connects at 10Gb/s... besides you can boot Windows with it and it has a decent average performance at the IOPs level although it's not the Samsung (mainly the problem is the Maxwell controller which is a potato).
In any case if I had to get a SATA3 I would get the "Samsung 840 Pro" of 512Gb which now is at 300€ and if it's not enough for me the "Crucial M550"... I say if it's not enough for me because with a scholarship salary I can do little. :eoh: