Is 40 enough?

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

Is a 40 gig SSD enough space? I have a backup hard drive which I have all my games and stuff on, but I have a 150 gig drive as my boot and I feel like I'm kinda barebones with it and I'm using 50 gigs. Has any one out there had a 40 gig or less SSD, is it hard to keep that little files?

 

[cadaveca]

Depends on how you set up the drive. Windows and such will boot faster, but that's about the only difference that you might realize due to not being able to isntall much on the SSD.

Typically, just windows and 2 games(Civ5 and F1 2010), plus all the benchmarks in my reviews, fills about ~30 GB on the 60GB SDD I use for the OS in review testing.

I'd download HDTune, find which is faster...the 150GB, or the data storage...and use that as the APP drive, with the OS on the SSD.

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

O_O my 150 is more than half the speed of of my 750 gig, I'm looking for a drive where I can back up my 750 and use that as my main...

 

[cadaveca]

Sounds good. I ran with 60GB SSD and 1 or two TB app drive for about 6-8 months, but now am back to mechanical drives, and the SSD went into the test bench.

 

[Disparia]

I once tried Windows 7 with 32GB. Painful, and 40GB isn't too far from that. 60GB I might be able to squeeze into

At first it was fine, but after awhile I had to routinely do "clean up" to keep from going zero space.

 

[mlee49]

I'm maxing out my 128GB Corsair Nova at the moment, lots of picture files and about 5 games.

I personally would not look at anything under 60GB at the moment. The SSD market has been around for a couple generations now that 60GB's arn't much more than the 40's.

 

[EarthDog]

As it is, yes, but like other people said may not be worth it. You can however...

1. Trim your W7 install with Vlite to take out all the things you do not need/use.
2. Once installed, if 4GB of ram or more, shrink Page File to 1024MB (frees up 3GB usually).
3. Disable hibernation and system restore, delete the files (frees up another couple GB).


Once its all said and done my install is under 10GB easily.. I think 7GB.

 

[Goodman]

Vista or Win7 i would say 40GB min as the OS itself once install will take more or less 20GB + drivers a few updates & software you can easy go over 30GB...

I for myself i wouldn't install Win7 on anything under 60GB so you can have extras space for future updates , drivers & software , the other thing is if you get a 40GB SSD they may be the older ones which was not all that much faster than the 7200 HDD are

 

[Yukikaze]

I run a pair of 30GB Vertexes in RAID0 on my second rig. I have under-allocated the array on the drives to leave some unused Flash space for the drives to manage themselves, so the resulting OS partition size is 52GB. Which 52GB is sufficient for me (OS + usual programs + EVE Online), I think 40GB would be pretty cramped.

 

[Derek12]

Vista or Win7 i would say 40GB min as the OS itself once install will take more or less 20GB + drivers a few updates & software you can easy go over 30GB...

I for myself i wouldn't install Win7 on anything under 60GB so you can have extras space for future updates , drivers & software , the other thing is if you get a 40GB SSD they may be the older ones which was not all that much faster than the 7200 HDD are

In my case Windows 7 64-bit ultimate with all the software except games installed took 18 GB.
If I remember, a clean install of Windows 7 took 10 GB though I am not sure

any game is installed on another HDD to prevent fragmentation and slow down