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I just receive my Lenov thinkpad edge e430 from eBay a few days ago, for college use. It has an 320 GB HDD 4GB Memory and Intel Core i5 -2450m. It has a free slot for a mSata SSD. I’m on a tight budget and  I want to get a 64 GB MSata for now and use the existing HDD for files and MSata for Windows 10 Pro until I can do better. Would the 64 GB MSATA be enough for my OS ?

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Windows uses about 20-25GB, so you should be good. You won't be able to install future major updates if you don't have at least 30GB free though, so keep that in mind. A 64GB card has roughly 60GB of actual space.

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Thank you for asking this question because I am in the exact same situation.  I have an Acer Aspire 7741G notebook and it has a 640Gb HDD and it also has an M2 slot.  I'm on a very tight budget so I figured I would get an M2 just for the OS.  I am running Win10 Home and from what I can figure 64Gb should be enough unless someone else has a recommendation for something else.  I'm watching your post very closely.

 

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that's one way to waste your money, I guess.  You won't be using that SSD anymore after upgrading to a larger one, and nobody is going to buy such a small SSD second-hand, nevermind an mSATA one.  There just isn't a market for these.  So whatever you pay, you won't get back. 

Might as well save up a bit longer and get a 128GB at the very least.

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22 minutes ago, Captain Chaos said:

that's one way to waste your money, I guess.  You won't be using that SSD anymore after upgrading to a larger one, and nobody is going to buy such a small SSD second-hand, nevermind an mSATA one.  There just isn't a market for these.  So whatever you pay, you won't get back. 

Might as well save up a bit longer and get a 128GB at the very least.

Would the 180 GB KingSpec SSD do the trick since it’s $54 SSD I’ve never heard of that company 

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25 minutes ago, Ques2.0 said:

Would the 180 GB KingSpec SSD do the trick since it’s $54 SSD I’ve never heard of that company 

They're rather slow transfer wise, but access time wise, they should be okay for that price.

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