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Any Sata 2 SSD should work. I like Crucial best as a SSD brand, but I am using a OCZ in mine FYI.
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What GB size is it i'm looking for please?
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I am using many revos with no problem at all. Then again I am using a decent os.
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If you're intending on replacing what you have now... what are you using now?
I genuinely use merely a few GB on mine, but it wasn't cost-effective to buy an 8GB unit. But I'm running OE with no local media and a shared, remote library - so it's OS, Kodi and thumbnails only. I can't say how much your Windows installation would need, and I don't know if you're storing local media.
I'd guess you'd need at least 64GB, maybe 128GB for Windows and your core apps, plus your media, but someone else can correct me on that.
Re: brand, I like Samsung, but any mainstream brand will do. Cheaper ones tend to be slower at writing than reading, more expensive ones are more symmetrical, but - again - it depends on what your system is likely to be doing. You're probably mostly reading, so a premium model is probably unnecessary.
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To give you an idea of size...
My revos (both r3610s) use about 20GB on the C drive (60GB windows partition), another 80GB windows partition holding about 15GB (backups, which don't need to be there + kodi and various odds and ends) and about 10GB for openelec. I'm looking to replace the hard drives with ssd's in the near future, and for me 64GB would be plenty for a dual boot windows / openelec machine. Having said that I'll probably go for 120 or 128s, because the price difference isn't much and I'll have more flexibility if I re-use them elsewhere.
If you're not bothered about keeping windows then as above the size really doesn't matter, Openelec uses very little space.
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The only media i store is music files and they are on a USB hard drive. I don't store films or tv shows as i very rarely watch anything twice, so apart from kodi and dbpoweramp the other stuff is what came with Windows minus the bloatware. I've also done a fresh install, which didn't improve things any. There are probably more things i could trim or move if i had to.
I think 64GB would probably be enough, but if 128GB isn't much dearer, then i will get that. I don't want to spend a fortune on this stuff, because there's a point at which i may as well just buy a new unit, as they are not that expensive in the grand scheme of things. I do think it's worth having a go though and if i'm still not happy, i can always use the revo for my music storage.
Thanks to all.
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Talking of storage and Windows, does Win 7 or 8.1 have built in at the OS level a hybrid SSD / HDD system like the Macs do with their Fusion Drive system ?
