Little SSD For Windows?

[CombatComedy]

I will be building my first build within the next 2-3 weeks and have heard that booting your windows onto a HDD is a pain due to its slower speeds. Would it be worth it to drop something like 50USD to buy a 128gb Kingston ssd just to drop in my OS and the games I want to play?

[LHJKO]

You can get a 250 gb  850 evo for like 80$ right now  an amazon 

[porina]

If you can get even a small SSD it will help with general system responsiveness and boot times. Well worth it. 120GB class is cheap, but look around, 240GB class usually isn't much more and gives a bit more breathing room.

[CombatComedy]

Just now, Vernw3 said:

You can get a 250 gb  850 evo for like 80$ right now  an amazon 

if i had 80 bucks to drop i would but i only have about 50 (im 14 and i have no real source of income other than babysitting and that isn't a 9-5 )

[Guest]

120+ is passable, but I'd try to go 240/256 just so you don't hit a wall in the no-so-distant future.

[CombatComedy]

Just now, Legendarypoet said:

120+ is passable, but I'd try to go 240/256 just so you don't hit a wall in the no-so-distant future.

i mean windows is only like 40 gb and i would only put the games i play most on it and uninstall the ones i dont play anymore

[manikyath]

as long as you're a digitally tidy person 120GB is okay, but 250 is REALLY advisable because its a relatively small price bump for a doubling of storage capacity.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, CombatComedy said:

i mean windows is only like 40 gb and i would only put the games i play most on it and uninstall the ones i dont play anymore

Right now yeah. But Windows does stupid things, programs grow and change. Things store stuff where they aren't supposed to. If you keep a handle on it, 120/128 is passable.

[CombatComedy]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

as long as you're a digitally tidy person 120GB is okay, but 250 is REALLY advisable because its a relatively small price bump for a doubling of storage capacity.

i cant afford it ( im not broke im just..... im not gonna answer that )

[CombatComedy]

1 minute ago, Legendarypoet said:

Right now yeah. But Windows does stupid things, programs grow and change. Things store stuff where they aren't supposed to. If you keep a handle on it, 120/128 is passable.

either way, along the line i can upgrade to another ssd (256 gb) just for my games and super-essentials and uninstall everything else from the other ssd and let it be the "windows only ssd"

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

Get 240 if you can, it helps tons.

 

I have a 120 in my build right now and it works perfectly fine (though after a year or 2, the random program installs to C:\ have started bloating the SSD).

[Tz000]

1 hour ago, CombatComedy said:

i mean windows is only like 40 gb and i would only put the games i play most on it and uninstall the ones i dont play anymore

I just built a system for my girlfriend using a 128GB Kingston SSD + WD Blue 3 TB HDD.  Windows boots very fast there is enough room for 1 or 2 average sized games but other than that she just puts all her work and large games onto the HDD.  If you are only going to have the 1 SSD then try to get a 250GB but if you are going to accompany it with a HDD 500GB+ then you should be fine with a 128GB.

 

Good luck with the build

 

cheers.