Ram or Hardrive M17x r3 what to upgrade?

I have an m17x r3 I dont know what to upgrade. I have 250 gb of space only so was thinking of buying a hardrive to expand that space. I dont know if I should dbuy an SSD to speed up the boot or a 7200 rpm 1 tera. Should I buy the 8gb kingston hyper x cuz i only have the standard 4gb ram 1333.

I want to upgrade one component what would be the best choice?

 

I'd do an SSD first. This will be your most worth while upgrade

4 gigs of ram is still good for most things...you can upgrade that anytime

 

well what you can do, is buy an SSD for speed, and relegate the 250gb drive to being a data hard drive. if all your doing is gaming, 4 gigs should be enough. hope this helps a bit

Edit: Slickdude beat me to it

 

Alright I thought an SSD would be a good choice. If I were to buy an SSD which one should I buy. I want something excellent not too pricey. I heard a lot are really bad and only certain ones are good. My thoughts was this:

Newegg.com - Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

whats your price range?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148448

something like this might be better because the extra space will allow you to install a few programs as well as the OS. I'm not an SSD expert so you prob better off getting the advice from someone who actually has one.

 

i was thinking 70-100 but, i heard that one is good..

 

That was the one i was advised to buy by other forum members a while back here is the thread if u wanna look through it

 

Is the one I posted the exact same model and only smaller size? Also will it fit in my alienware. Because I dont really need 128 gb >.<

Edit: I guess this is the closest to the 128 m4 crucial..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148447

 

the one you posted is the C300 which is the previous model to the M4

The M4 will fit...many people like it on this forum.

There was a sale recently (as in a few days ago) on newegg for the 128 gig M4 for $179.99 shipped, I don't know if its still available

http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...ebook-internal-ssd-179-99-shipped-newegg.html

PS...if you're buying it for your M17x R3, get it without the transfer kit and you will save a few bucks

 

Newegg.com - Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

This one is perfect its only 64gb which is fine with me and its a bit slower than the 128 by like 75mb/s. Do you think its worth it or should is till go for the 128..?

 

That really is up to you to decide. 64 gigs is good for windows and several apps.

If you feel you don't need more, then go for it.

i find that with 128 gigs, it gives me a lot more freedom to install more on the ssd and i don't worry as much about what i install on it. A modern game now is what? 8-10 gigs installed? maybe more?

 

I'd definitely go for an SSD upgrade aswell.

Ocz, Corsair and Crucial has some great SSDs, cannot recommend any special production-model, but i've heard that the larger the SSD is, the faster it will be.
(Because of some dual-channel thing that applies for the NAND-chips in it..).
Also, do some real research on the type you're thinking about buying, some SSDs nowa'days have rumours for losing / deleting stuff that is on them, and don't forget to get an SSD which has good read AND write speed!

Last thing i would recommend you to do, is to NOT contact Dell about it.. They're only selling -expensive SSDs that can be otbained for a far less price than what they offer them for.

Also, I'm not quiet shure on this, but isn't the mounting-brackets for the R3 made to hold 2,5" discs? If so, look for SSDs that are 2,5" in size..

- Scott.

 

Definitely SSD. Best bang for the buck.
You WILL notice the difference.
With the RAM upgrade, the only way you'll see a slight difference is by running benchmarks.
No real-world everyday noticable performance increase, even in games.

If you're willing to cough up some more $$, I would recommend an SF-2281 based SSD like Patriot Wildfire 120GB. Make sure to upgrade the FW to 3.3.2. on SandForce based controllers.