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Kimmaz
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Hello, I have been thinking of getting a SSD to use as my system disk (c:) and got a concern about how small they are and how to cope with that, (I'm not rich and cant afford a 500$ SSD ^^)

 

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- How big of a SSD would you recommend?

- What do you NOT store on your system disk anymore?

- Should I wait for the price to fall?

 

I mainly got installed programs/games on my system disk. not any media files or "install files". I even got my documents located at e:\documents, not the usual C:\Users\user\Documents, the same with pictures, music and downloads. I still have 650gb of stuff on my system disk. Its mainly my steam folder (270gb) and also alot of other games/programs that are installed there. I just don't see what I should do if I was limited to a 250/500gb ssd. Id have to uninstall alot of stuffz. ^^

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I make it buy with a 128gig just fine :) All I keep on it is my OS, Photoshop and the game I play the most at the time :)

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I use a 240GB SSD for everything except video files which go on my 2TB HDD.

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Hello, I have been thinking of getting a SSD to use as my system disk (c:) and got a concern about how small they are and how to cope with that, (I'm not rich and cant afford a 500$ SSD ^^)

 

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- How big of a SSD would you recommend?

- What do you NOT store on your system disk anymore?

- Should I wait for the price to fall?

 

I mainly got installed programs/games on my system disk. not any media files or "install files". I even got my documents located at e:\documents, not the usual C:\Users\user\Documents, the same with pictures, music and downloads. I still have 650gb of stuff on my system disk. Its mainly my steam folder (270gb) and also alot of other games/programs that are installed there. I just don't see what I should do if I was limited to a 250/500gb ssd. Id have to uninstall alot of stuffz. ^^

 

1. I'd say 256GB and up.

2. I don't store anything but windows and other important stuff on there. After about 2 years on this SSD, it is about 70GB used, including a 15GB windows.old file.

3. If you want to, but the prices are pretty good already. I got mine for about 1 euro or about 1.2 dollars per gig :P SSD's cost under half that now.

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I just found this online, is this something to consider? is it any good? Hybrid ssd+hdd in one device (120gb+1000gb) 

 

Western Digital BlackDual drive 120GB SSD 1TB HDD

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190

 

Might just be as slow as a hdd for all I know,, idk haha if not, its a very cheap 1TB SSD =P

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I'm on a 120Gb and I find it hard to manage. I really need to keep it clean betweens downloads and work files which can get quite large. 

 

At first I did a symbolic link of my user folder to my external drive which worked great. But when 8.1 came out, I couldn't install it because of that setup... Sucks

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