Best value ssd for late 2006 iMac?

[smit]

My late 2006 iMac (2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB ram, OSX Lion) has been great to me but getting a little slow. When my 2012 iMac comes I plan to put an ssd in the 2006 iMac instead of tossing it to help speed it up so I can still use it for basic stuff (email, Word). I won't be installing any additional software and will not store any data on it so I'm looking for the lowest capacity drive that will run OSX.

Any thoughts on what the best value ssd? I was looking at the crucial v4 64GB SATA 3Gb/s for 69.99. Is there anything cheaper that will give be a boost? Is there any reason to buy a better drive?

http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=D9895B0EA5CA7304

Thanks for any input

 

[rpramanik]

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I was going to sell mine but bring up a interesting idea...

 

[MeFromHere]

My late 2006 iMac (2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB ram, OSX Lion) has been great to me but getting a little slow. When my 2012 iMac comes I plan to put an ssd in the 2006 iMac instead of tossing it to help speed it up so I can still use it for basic stuff (email, Word). I won't be installing any additional software and will not store any data on it so I'm looking for the lowest capacity drive that will run OSX.

Any thoughts on what the best value ssd? I was looking at the crucial v4 64GB SATA 3Gb/s for 69.99. Is there anything cheaper that will give be a boost? Is there any reason to buy a better drive?

http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=D9895B0EA5CA7304

Thanks for any input

I have the same 2006 iMac.

The SATA port is pretty slow on these machines (from System Information):

Intel ICH7-M AHCI:

  Vendor:                 Intel
  Product:                ICH7-M AHCI
  Link Speed:             1.5 Gigabit
  Negotiated Link Speed:  1.5 Gigabit
  Description:            AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

So the SSD won't run at its full speed. Don't bother getting an even faster SSD.