[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Dennis! Ha ha. Bad timing. I just bought a drive this afternoon.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA5AD2N46613

(Please don't tell me it's terrible because I already bought it!)

Patience is a virtue...

It's not an SSD obviously but it will be a good learning project for me. When I get more knowledgeable (and get a better computer) I'll take your advice and get an SSD. I hear they are killer-good if you should happen to get a virus too.

If what you run is Linux, viruses are a no-op. Viruses target Windows , and hook themselves into the OS. They bounce off on Linux and Mac OS/X.

And running on an SSD does not virus proof you. As for as the OS is concerned, an SSD is a disk. The fact that it's actually NAND Flash instead of spinning platters on an HD is invisible to the OS routines that read from/write to it. They just see a disk.

Malware is a somewhat different story, but the attack vector in malware is the browser. It's why I run the NoScript addon in Firefox, along with the uBlock Origin addon that serves as an ad/malware blocker.

But you say Crucial and Samsung. I checked out both but Crucial was pricey (over $50) and the Samsung was this:

http://www.amazon.com/PC2-6400-PC640...in%3A673263011

But some guy told me to get this Kingston:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012Y0QV6/?tag=pcpapi-20

Please re-read what I said. I was referring specifically to SSDs in my Crucial and Samsung comment.

As I mentioned earlier, what I have as RAM in my desktop is mostly Centon, which is another budget brand. Price was about what the Kingston will cost you.

My 240GB Crucial MX-100 SSD cost me under $100. I do not consider that "pricey" for what I got.

Which do you think would be better?

The Kingston RAM looks like it would do the job.
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Dennis