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One of my recent endeavors has been to build three mini-ITX rigs, with AM1 boards and CPUs. (Ok, and one micro-ATX AM1, but we won't talk about the odd man out.)
It all started with some cheap Sempron 3850 CPUs ($20), and soon spilled over to some $36.99 decent-looking mini-ITX Winsis cases from Directron.com , and then of course, RAM and SSDs.
Initially, I had purchased two Apotop (huh? yeah.) 120/128GB SSDs from Newegg for $50. (Cheapest 120GB-class SSDs at the time.)
Then, Newegg had a special on Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB SSDs, for $40 ea.
Then, later on, after I had built two of the ITX rigs, and was buying the remaining parts for the third, I decided to spring for some 32GB SSDs at TigerDirect. Transcend '370 models, for $27.49 ea + ship, came out to around $30 ea.
My thinking was that I was going to be putting Linux Mint on these, and that a 120GB SSD would be overkill for a Linux install.
Part of my goal was to get the overall cost of the PC below or at $200, which swapping out the $50 SSD for a $30 SSD would get me.
I haven't opened the 32GB SSDs, and now I'm lamenting that I may have made a mistake in value by purchasing them. At least I didn't get them at Newegg, because they want $50 for them. Yep, $50 for a 120GB, or $50 for a 32GB, guess size doesn't matter to Newegg.
I don't think Linux Mint 17.2 takes up more than 16GB, including 4GB for swap (4GB RAM in PC). So that should leave a decent amount for document storage and downloads.
It all started with some cheap Sempron 3850 CPUs ($20), and soon spilled over to some $36.99 decent-looking mini-ITX Winsis cases from Directron.com , and then of course, RAM and SSDs.
Initially, I had purchased two Apotop (huh? yeah.) 120/128GB SSDs from Newegg for $50. (Cheapest 120GB-class SSDs at the time.)
Then, Newegg had a special on Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB SSDs, for $40 ea.
Then, later on, after I had built two of the ITX rigs, and was buying the remaining parts for the third, I decided to spring for some 32GB SSDs at TigerDirect. Transcend '370 models, for $27.49 ea + ship, came out to around $30 ea.
My thinking was that I was going to be putting Linux Mint on these, and that a 120GB SSD would be overkill for a Linux install.
Part of my goal was to get the overall cost of the PC below or at $200, which swapping out the $50 SSD for a $30 SSD would get me.
I haven't opened the 32GB SSDs, and now I'm lamenting that I may have made a mistake in value by purchasing them. At least I didn't get them at Newegg, because they want $50 for them. Yep, $50 for a 120GB, or $50 for a 32GB, guess size doesn't matter to Newegg.
I don't think Linux Mint 17.2 takes up more than 16GB, including 4GB for swap (4GB RAM in PC). So that should leave a decent amount for document storage and downloads.