Partitioning an SSD

Lum

80GB bare minimum for Win7 for normal/general use, I'd say.

But if you're keeping all your data on your old mechanical drive. The advantages of the simpler reformat/reinstall don't apply to you anyway as all the data will already be on a different partition.

Toxteth_OGrady

Lum wrote: »

80GB bare minimum for Win7 for normal/general use, I'd say.

But if you're keeping all your data on your old mechanical drive. The advantages of the simpler reformat/reinstall don't apply to you anyway as all the data will already be on a different partition.

Does beg the question that if OP is going to keep legacy data on mechanical disk and also point Windows Libraries' defaults to that 2nd disk, what's the 240 - 80 = 160 GB spare partition on the SSD for?

In this scenario there's would be no real benefit in splitting the new SSD into an OS and a data partition.

Lum

Note that that 80gb bare minimum assumes you're not a gamer. Since those things can take up 10gb each these days. You'll be wanting a lot more.

One 240gb partition will be awesome for that

Toxteth_OGrady

Lum wrote: »

One 240gb partition will be awesome for that

OS + Steam. :T

Another option with a large SSD is to set up one of its partitions as a high speed cache for the 2nd mechanical drive using Intel's SRT. However that configuration requires some serious tweaking/faffing during OS installation, as well as SRT compatible cpu/chipset.

wongataa

It is not a good idea to have more than one partition on SSD disk as it will reduce performance.

Avoriaz

50Twuncle wrote: »

I now see that Crucial have put the SSD that I ordered on Saturday on sale - reduced from £144 (+vat) to £108 (+vat) - it still hasn't been delivered - so I am trying to get Crucial to give me a partial refund on this (not inconsiderable) price drop...
I feel angry that I was not informed of this by the salesperson that I had a "live chat" with prior to buying it !!!

If they don't agree to reduce the price then you may* have the option of returning the £144 drive under DSR (Distance Selling Regulations) and buying another one at £108. Telling Crucial that is what you will do may persuade them to simply credit you the difference.

I wrote "may" as I am not 100% certain that DSR applies in this case.

What are Crucial's return Ts&Cs?

Avoriaz

Lum wrote: »

80GB bare minimum for Win7 for normal/general use, I'd say.....

Apologies if I am somewhat highjacking the OP's thread.

I have a 3 year old Windows7 laptop with a single 500gb disk. It came with Vista which I removed and replaced with a clean copy of Windows7. I created three partitions with an OS partition of 35gb. There are 5gb free space so 30gb are being used.

I keep all my data on two other partitions. 20gb for general data and 412gb for my many large music videos and audio files.

I am not a gamer and I don't have any large programmes. The Programme Files folder has less than 5gb in it.

It all works fine for my purposes. When I get around to reinstalling my now 3 year old Windows7, would there be any benefit in making a bigger than 35gb OS partition? You suggest 80gb as a bare minimum.

I can easily allocate less than 412gb for my videos as I have multiple copies on external 1tb drives. I have about 800gb in total so they don’t all fit on the laptop drive anyway.

Thanks

Here are my current partitions:

Lum

But you're struggling there, only 5GB.

I mean sure if you basically install nothing you'll get away with less. My HTCP has a 40GB SSD in there and manages just fine. But my definition of "general use" included installing a bunch of stuff and not having to faff too much with disk space management.

bluesnake

Gratis wrote: »

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Originally Posted by I have spoken

I wouldn't partition a small drive like an SSD, just install Windows and apps on that and keep all your data on hard disk.

Even if the OP is installing this in a laptop...?

Often you do have an option of two drives on laptops. I have 2 drives in my laptop ssd and 750Gig.

Remove the often rarely used dvd drive. Put in a drive bay caddy and large capacity slow disk in caddy (£10 ebay). Put ssd in original drive bay. Possibly buy external usb writer (£14-but I've never used mine).

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People in glass houses Gratis .......

espresso

bluesnake wrote: »

People in glass houses Gratis .......

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