03-13-2012, 04:46 PM
16GB is ample, but the rub is speed. RAM chips are commodities, and you pay through an orifice for the companies to test 'em and rate 'em for you. Look at some sites that rate flash memory products; you'll see more consistent ratings for the higher priced/higher speed rated products... BUT, you'll also see ratings all over the map for the lower priced/lower speed rated products. You'll see some results for the cheap stuff that meet or beat their higher priced brethren. Why is this? Because you gotta pay the higher price to get 'em pre-tested. A lot of good chips do get into the cheaper products, and perform quite well; the caveat is that you gotta buy 'em and test 'em yourself to find out what you've got. I put dots on 'em w/ a sharpie to rate 'em, the use the speedy ones for important stuff. Also keep in mind that read and write speeds can be vastly different, so you may only need to concern yourself w/ read speed if you're not gonna be writing to it after it's created as desired. You're paying for convenience when you buy the expensive stuff.
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