Is a 60Gb Ssd Enough For Windows 10

[Niko Papastamatis]

Hi, I'm thinking of picking up a cheap 60gb ssd, will this be enough for windows 10 and a couple of programs like chrome, I do have a 1tb wd blue hdd for my games so this won't be an issue.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

yes it's totally fine. i ran a 60gb ssd for a long time, and it was fine. just make sure you check your free space once in a while, because you need at least 16gb of free space to do the big Windows updates. 

 

with Windows, and chrome and spotify, office etc. you will use approx. 30-40 gb of space. so yeah, fine.

 

what i would recommend is moving the default location of your Downloads folder to your hdd. 

[vorticalbox]

7 minutes ago, Niko Papastamatis said:

Hi, I'm thinking of picking up a cheap 60gb ssd, will this be enough for windows 10 and a couple of programs like chrome, I do have a 1tb wd blue hdd for my games so this won't be an issue.

Here is my space used on a windows 10 with all updates and a few programs

 

 

[xentropa]

That would give you about 20 gigs of usable space.  Usually you need to leave about 10% free space on an OS drive. 

[ProjectBox153]

You'll be fine. You'll need to keep larger programs on other drives (like your mentioned WD Blue), but the OS and web browser sure will fit. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, xentropa said:

That would give you about 20 gigs of usable space.  Usually you need to leave about 10% free space on an OS drive. 

no it won't. it gives you 50 gigs of ree space, -16 gigs for future Windows updates abotu 32GB, which is more than enough for Chrome and a few other apps. 

[chiller15]

60GB would work, but you'd be pushing it in the future and would probably have to look at clearing some cache files or similar at some point. 

6 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

no it won't. it gives you 50 gigs of ree space, -16 gigs for future Windows updates abotu 32GB, which is more than enough for Chrome and a few other apps. 

No, it would be about 20-30GB of free space. Once Windows is installed and some apps are installed - you're looking at somewhere between 30-40GB being used. Given that the drive in question is 60GB, I don't know where you go 50GB free from.

[Niko Papastamatis]

9 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

Here is my space used on a windows 10 with all updates and a few programs

 

 

Have you just got your os installed?

[Niko Papastamatis]

Thanks everyone, looked at some other forums, I think for an extra $20 I'll go for a 120gb to avoid any headaches.

[Simon771]

I was using 64GB for a year, but after all updates and temp files it gets full very fast.

I simply can't recommend anything below 100GB for Windows, based on my experiences.

[vorticalbox]

14 minutes ago, Niko Papastamatis said:

Have you just got your os installed?

OS, visual studio, visual code, Minecraft windows 10 edition, firefox, chrome, skype, discord, pycharmed, python3 +python 2, Spotify, photoshop, 7zip, node and xammp

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 hours ago, chiller15 said:

60GB would work, but you'd be pushing it in the future and would probably have to look at clearing some cache files or similar at some point. 

No, it would be about 20-30GB of free space. Once Windows is installed and some apps are installed - you're looking at somewhere between 30-40GB being used. Given that the drive in question is 60GB, I don't know where you go 50GB free from.

Windows takes up 10 gigs. then you have 50 left over. -16 for free space for updates, that's 34, put chrome and steam on it's 30. 

[MSWindowsinside]

3 hours ago, Niko Papastamatis said:

Hi, I'm thinking of picking up a cheap 60gb ssd, will this be enough for windows 10 and a couple of programs like chrome, I do have a 1tb wd blue hdd for my games so this won't be an issue.

Like what others said, it'll be fine for a lot of users if you are fine with keeping larger programs on the HDD. One tip: you can compress the Windows folder down quite a lot by running the command "compact.exe /CompactOs:always". Also, you can compress other programs and games with Compact.exe too. I would use CompactGUI for that though because commands can be a bit confusing https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI/releases

Compact.exe can save a lot of space without much performance difference on a modern system.

[BOF007]

i have a 500gb ssd for sale if interested,pm  

[dizmo]

14 hours ago, Niko Papastamatis said:

Thanks everyone, looked at some other forums, I think for an extra $20 I'll go for a 120gb to avoid any headaches.

This is the right choice. 60GB SSDs will die faster, and aren't as fast as a larger drive.

11 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

Windows takes up 10 gigs. then you have 50 left over. -16 for free space for updates, that's 34, put chrome and steam on it's 30. 

Except you don't get 60GB of usable space with a 60GB SSD.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

5 hours ago, dizmo said:

This is the right choice. 60GB SSDs will die faster, and aren't as fast as a larger drive.

Except you don't get 60GB of usable space with a 60GB SSD.

more like 55, but till, it's fine