Is using only single 120 gb ssd for running pc is fine?

[Denme]

I was about to building a pc but i really tight on budget 

And i was wondering if i can only use 120 gb ssd will be fine. Because i only use it for digital drawing and doing home work

[glenalz81]

Yeah it's fine. You can always add storage down the line.

[lightfire]

I use a 128gb macbook air and I still have 40gb space left  You can always upgrade with a hdd when you need some bulk storage.

[Bombastinator]

4 minutes ago, Denme said:

I was about to building a pc but i really tight on budget 

And i was wondering if i can only use 120 gb ssd will be fine. Because i only use it for digital drawing and doing home work

It will work.  The problem is there won’t be a lot of storage space.  If at some point down the road you can find $40 to add some HD storage you might find it useful.

[Denme]

But will it going to be effecting my pc performance? 

[Godlygamer23]

10 minutes ago, Denme said:

But will it going to be effecting my pc performance? 

Eventually, it could if it gets full enough. But as stated, you can add storage down the road. 

[Denme]

I was worried it is going to be the same error as the last year

Last year i build a pc with only single 120 gb ssd after 2 week the operating system having a problem like keep stuck on system recovery and i reinstalled the os (not update it)  and 2 days after reinstalled the os it has the same problem, the screen casualy freeze but the mouse keep move

And after many trials and error i have

Given up and keep the pc on my basement

[lightfire]

2 minutes ago, Denme said:

I was worried it is going to be the same error as the last year

Last year i build a pc with only single 120 gb ssd after 2 week the operating system having a problem like keep stuck on system recovery and i reinstalled the os (not update it)  and 2 days after reinstalled the os it has the same problem, the screen casualy freeze but the mouse keep move

And after many trials and error i have

Given up and keep the pc on my basement

I don't think that was a problem with your ssd. I've put loads of 120gb ssd's in old laptops and never had a problem with it. Shouldn't be a problem with desktops either.

[Godlygamer23]

5 minutes ago, Denme said:

I was worried it is going to be the same error as the last year

Last year i build a pc with only single 120 gb ssd after 2 week the operating system having a problem like keep stuck on system recovery and i reinstalled the os (not update it)  and 2 days after reinstalled the os it has the same problem, the screen casualy freeze but the mouse keep move

And after many trials and error i have

Given up and keep the pc on my basement

It may not be related to the capacity of the SSD, but to something else. I've used 120GB SSDs for builds, and don't really have issues like that.

[Bombastinator]

One thing that needs to be watched with. SSDs is as they reach the absolute upper limit of full they can have weird problems. This is true of most drives to one degree or another tough.

 

if the problem with this previous 120gb machine was you filled up the drive in two week, which isn’t particularly hard to do, I could see a problem like that happening.  Running a machine with low storage can be done.  The whole “squirrel everything away” option isn’t there though.

[Dr0y]

I have a 60 gb ssd in the media pc and it's been running fine for more than a year.  We only use it to watch anime and youtube.  No other storage attached to it and there's still about 30gb of free space on it. 

 

[Denme]

2 minutes ago, Dr0y said:

I have a 60 gb ssd in the media pc and it's been running fine for more than a year.  We only use it to watch anime and youtube.  No other storage attached to it and there's still about 30gb of free space on it. 

 

what cpu did you use? 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Denme said:

what cpu did you use? 

It’s not about CPU.  The CPU type should have no effect on storage needs.   Older CPUs did often come on machines with less storage but the two are not related.

[Dr0y]

3 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

It’s not about CPU.  The CPU type should have no effect on storage needs.   Older CPUs did often come on machines with less storage but the two are not related.

exactly, old computers used small storage motly because storage was expensive back in the days ...

 

As for the pc running on the 60gb ssd it's amd phenom2 x4 B95 ... we use it every day

I had a 128gb ssd on my I7 4770 for about a year before buying a 1tb for boot drive.