Ordering Upgrades Suggestions wanted

I'm looking to upgrade from a single 500GB HDD to a Crucial CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 256GB, 2.5-inch Solid State Drive. Then also adding a Crucial CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 128GB, 2.5-inch Solid State Drive for extra storage. I'm not going to run a RAID, just keep them separate drives with different drive leeters. I'll install windows and my more frequent programs on the 256, then store all my other files such as music and pictures on the 128.

I am also looking to get rid of the crappy Dell memory and getting 8GB of crucial memory since it doesnt look like they make hyper X memory in 8GB.

Do you guys have any suggestions on other components? I'm looking for the highest performance components I can get.

 

You can buy your 256Gb SSD and keep it as a boot drive(windows,apps,games you play,etc) and put the 500Gb HDD you already own as a storage drive as 128Gb you'll find it small in a short matter of time.
Looking for more storage? Get an external HDD(1Tb) or if you're comfortable in replacing your optical drive(don't use it often) you can fit there another storage HDD with a enclosure(there's a thread about this here)
Also posting your specs will help us guide you further.
Cheers

 

Well I have heard so many good things about the SSD's and I just feel like now the mechanical drive is bottlenecking my system. I still use my optical drive so I dont want to get rid of that. I also take my comp with me everywhere I go so I dont want to carry around an external.

The specs on my system are

M17xR2 Core i7-940XM | Nvidia 285 SLI | 8gb 1333 DDR3 RAM | 500GB 7200rpm | 1920x1200 RGBLED | Win 7 x64

 

If 256Gb is enough for you to store all your most used applications (or games) on, then raid0 is not needed. I would also opt to use your 500Gb drive as a 2nd drive, 128gb as a second drive is not really alot.
As you would use it as storage, the performance increase from it being an SSD (and if it's an older model SSD, then the performance increase will be minimal anyway) won't really get used alot.

Do realise that everything you store on anything else then your SSD's, will affect the performance increase. If you install windows on the ssd and a game on your normal drive, then you will not see alot of performance increase.

Which gets me to my first question again, if you have any doubts about 256Gb being enough for a primary drive, I would opt for a raid0 setup with 2x256 SSD's.

 

Well I just got the M17x R2 I had a R1 before this but it got replaced. My R1 ids fully loaded with all the space I would use up, programs, music, pictures, movies, games. I checked to see how much space it used up and it was 248GB. So thats why I thought I would just get 128GB as backup storage for music pictures movies, and some other files such as photoshop and autodesk files. I was going to do 2x256 SSD's but I was trying to keep the price under $1000

 

If you don't own these 2 SSD you mentioned yet i suggest you wait for the new SSD from crucial which is being released to market in less than a month

The newer ones are cheaper and faster (C400 series) current C300 have issues (unless you update the firmware)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4086/microns-realssd-c400-uses-25nm-nand-at-161gb-offers-415mbs-reads

Getting SSD for movies or music is useless, Get SSD for OS+Applications, Move your 500GB drive to none OS drive and place all your movies/music/future downloads on it, you don't want to limit yourself to 128gb when you have access to 500GB drive

I personally don't even mind 5400DRM drive for music/movies folder

 

Yeah just did some research on that C400 series which does look good. Thanks for showing me that I will wait for them to come out. I guess your right to I may as well just use the 500GB for the storage.

Do you know if theres any high performance RAM I could get at 8GB?