SSD Size - 60GB Large enough?

sand_man said:
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]
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Windows 8 gave me similar boot up times as that video on my old HP dv6 dual core laptop WITHOUT an ssd lol so I'm betting windows 8 boot times with ssd's are legendary?
 
falcon786 said:
Windows 8 gave me similar boot up times as that video on my old HP dv6 dual core laptop WITHOUT an ssd lol so I'm betting windows 8 boot times with ssd's are legendary?
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Something is wrong there I suspect.

On a side not my '05 celeron laptop (5400rpm) takes about that long to boot, desktop (7200rpm) about 10 sec but that's linux for which a 10GB SSD would also be fine in a htpc.
 
neilronaldson said:
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.
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sand_man said:
Who said ssd's don't fail? They do!!
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Electrical or physical damage will still break everything, but SSDs fail differently towards the end of their useful life, swapping into a "read-only" mode that allows you to use the drive to back up your data and move it to another location.

falcon786 said:
Windows 8 gave me similar boot up times as that video on my old HP dv6 dual core laptop WITHOUT an ssd lol so I'm betting windows 8 boot times with ssd's are legendary?
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ponder said:
Something is wrong there I suspect.
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Hybrid Boot on Windows 8/8.1 would generate sub-35 second boot times including post on my machine before moving to my SSD. With a SSD, it's just under 20 seconds including POST. I could get that to 15 or less, but that would require using fast boot and I won't be able to get into the BIOS that easily without going into Windows first.
 
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dont know what you want to use for but id say no. running 256gb and 140gb used after 2months.
 
psion said:
Yea, initially it might fit, but after windows updates and some software it fills up.
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Running Win 7 64 Bit on 60GB SDD with basic programs for media playback and updates for 3 years now and still over 10GB free space.

Before that I used 32GB SSD with hibernation and system restore disabled as mentioned.
 
Yeah, I mean vanilla Windows7 64-bit stock install is not going to consume much more than 20gb?
 
Thanks guys.

And R637.00 is probably the cheapest I'll get at brick and mortar store?
 
alkit said:
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
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Why not just leave it on? Then you don't need to worry about the 10 seconds?
 
neilronaldson said:
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...
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sand_man said:
Who said ssd's don't fail? They do!!

If you think they expensive now you should have seen them 2 years ago...
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Everything fails. If you want to be proven wrong, say somethin like: the Titanic cannot sink.

60GB is enough, as others above said:
  1. Disable Hibernate first: (admin cmd) powercfg -h off
  2. Disable Pagefile (If you have enough RAM), or simply move it onto a secondary hdd.
  3. Reduce or disable system restore settings
  4. Run Disk Cleanup every now and again if you suspect space is getting low

Also, don't forget to do other SSD optimizations, such as enable TRIM and disabling disk defrag.
 
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