SSD Size - 60GB Large enough?

[Dolby]

Is a 60GB SSD large enough for Windows 7 64 bit?

This will go in my HP microserver and only run Windows/XBMC only - nothing else. There's no benefit to going larger at all? No swapping files or anything?

TS64GSSD340 Transcend - 60GB 2.5" SATA III SSD R637 incl

 

[froot]

Just for Windows/XBMC? Yeah, then it's fine.

 

[Dolby]

Thanks man

 

[Jimmy-Z]

60GB is fine, just disable windows updates & system restore, or it'll fill up pretty quick

 

[alkit]

Yep, I got a 64gb ssd running Windows 7 and xbmc. What a pleasure. It starts upand loads xbmc in under 10 seconds. Have had it running like this for the last few months. No issues

 

[spiderkzn]

Yes it fine. But for gaming and many stuff need to store as suggest to get 1TB or 2TB HDD as 2nd hard drive.

 

[psion]

I suggest you run openelc (standalone version of XBMC) based on Linux

 

[Mariuspay]

For Windows definitely not

 

[CataclysmZA]

Yeah for uses like that, 60-64GB is perfectly fine. Disable hibernation and the page file and you'll be good to go.

 

[psion]

For Windows definitely not

Yea, initially it might fit, but after windows updates and some software it fills up. Been there done this.

If you are only going to use this for media: www.openelec.tv then the 64GB will be more than fine

 

[sand_man]

More than enough yes.

 

[Species8472]

Yea, initially it might fit, but after windows updates and some software it fills up. Been there done this.

If you are only going to use this for media: www.openelec.tv then the 64GB will be more than fine

Erm, bs

I am running win7 on a 60gb ssd in my microserver. It has XBMC on it, runs Sickbeard, Couchpotato, IIS Webservice, Apache Webservice, MariaDB (MySql) and a bunch of other stuff.

Not only do I have more than enough space on it, I also have ~14GB of Owncloud files on there (that I still need to move to my second drive)

Please see attached screenshots.



OP, 60GB is more than enough!

Edit, of the 8.5GB in the Users folder 7GB was compressed logs that did not take up much physical space.

 

[Timber_MG]

I had a microserver with an 8GB SSD and it took longer to post than to boot. Spindle disk only spun up when needed. Have a mini-itx running off the same with linux and XP and it boots like a deamon.

 

[Electric]

It's fine.
Just turn paging off.

 

[neilronaldson]

I'm looking at buying an EXT HDD for the house a 1TB, but i would rather have SSD then i know it cant fail...your ext hdd are still electronic and can still fail, meaning loosing everything.

wow these ssd are expensive...

 

[psion]

Erm, bs

I am running win7 on a 60gb ssd in my microserver. It has XBMC on it, runs Sickbeard, Couchpotato, IIS Webservice, Apache Webservice, MariaDB (MySql) and a bunch of other stuff.

Not only do I have more than enough space on it, I also have ~14GB of Owncloud files on there (that I still need to move to my second drive)

Please see attached screenshots.

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OP, 60GB is more than enough!

Edit, of the 8.5GB in the Users folder 7GB was compressed logs that did not take up much physical space.

So no windows updates I see...

 

[sand_man]

I'm looking at buying an EXT HDD for the house a 1TB, but i would rather have SSD then i know it cant fail...your ext hdd are still electronic and can still fail, meaning loosing everything.

wow these ssd are expensive...

Who said ssd's don't fail? They do!!

If you think they expensive now you should have seen them 2 years ago...

 

[falcon786]

Yep, I got a 64gb ssd running Windows 7 and xbmc. What a pleasure. It starts upand loads xbmc in under 10 seconds. Have had it running like this for the last few months. No issues

Thats pretty quick, I wonder how much faster it would be with Windows 8.1.

 

[sand_man]

Thats pretty quick, I wonder how much faster it would be with Windows 8.1.

I did some work on a neglected HP4520 recently. She was booting in around 145 seconds cold boot. Installed a Samsung pro ssd and a fresh install of Windows 7. Tweaked settings in the bios and voila...

[video=youtube;qT1jEDDY6Dc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1jEDDY6Dc&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[Species8472]

So no windows updates I see...

Fully updated as of yesterday, auto update both important and optional updates. (Checked now and I have 1 new update available, busy installing as I type)