What Size SSD Should I look for

[chandler_bailey4]

Hi, I'm looking at SSDs for my eMachines desktop PC that dual-boots Ubuntu 13.10 (x64) and Windows 7 Home Premium (x64).

This one stood out to me http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digit...5828623&sr=1-1

but I was wondering if I'd be better off with the 60 gb model for $50 or the 120 for $70. Let me know what you think

[rackit]

Double the storage for $20 more sounds like a better value to me. I have experienced the need to upgrade firmware on certain Samsung (not Kingston) SSDs to get them to work with current kernels, just a heads-up.

[chandler_bailey4]

How difficult would it be to replace a 1TB HDD with the 120gb SSD, hardware-speaking? I want to fresh install both operating systems and use Ubuntu as my primary OS (Win7 just for printing)

[Bashing-om]

chandler_bailey4; Hi !

I gotta chime in ! Why replace ? Why not add ?
SSD as the primary hard drive and the 1tb hard disk secondary/storage and what ever ??

I believe;
no such thing as too much ram, no such thing as too much storage

[rackit]

Should be pretty straight forward. Are you going to us the TB drive for data? If you just use windows to print, have you considered a VM (VirtualBox) and just print from within that? BTW what can't you print from Linux that you need to have Windows to print? unsupported printer perhaps?

[Bashing-om]

chandler_bailey4; Yeah !

^ What he (rackit) said.

why didn't I think of that

[chandler_bailey4]

Yeah, it's a Canon Pixma MG3222 that isn't completely supported. Can't do color and it prints a lot slower than it does on Windows. I should try setting up a VM like that. Is it hard to set an SSD as primary and make the HDD for the data?

[rackit]

I use fstab to mount my data drive. You can put where ever you want. I usually do ~/data if I'm the only one using it, otherwise, /mnt/data, or something like that. Make sure owner and group are set to allow you wr access to it.

[chandler_bailey4]

As quite a beginner, how difficult would all of this setup be?

[rackit]

Here are the community docs https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab if you need a hand, repost.