what is the best use for this SSD?

Cisco001

What PC spec have you got?
32GB SSD can use as cache if your hardware support it.

droopsnoot

chunter wrote: »

Anyone ever sit down and think how an operating system got to be 20gbs. It's just nuts. It's an operating system.

Yes, and how the stub installer for IE 11, just a web browser, is almost 30Mb. Which then connects up and downloads the proper browser, so it's anyone's guess what the real size is. But because high-capacity memory and hard disks are so cheap now, no-one cares enough to consider keeping sizes down.

I am building a "new" PC just now, and I consdered getting a cheap SSD for the main drive. But although I haven't installed all the applications yet, I've used over 30Gb of the new drive.

S0litaire

It's possible to use that ssd for your OS but you'll need to use NTFS disk compression.
You have a few folders that grow quite quickly to the double figure gigabyte size.

One of those of called c:\windows\Winsxs

Is filled with thousands of folders with text files which can be compressed massively to reduce the OS footprint by 20% - 25%.

poppellerant

I agree with those who say to use the SSD as a cache. The SSD drive is too small to sensibly use in an everyday PC, at least not without very regular cleanups and uninstallations of unused programs.

Using the SSD as a cache will give you most of the benefits of an SSD drive and you'll still have the 2 TB harddrive. Myself, I'd partition the harddrive so you have about 200gb for your Windows installation and programs and the remainder for storage.

S0litaire

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Some Chromebooks currently come with a 16GB SSD and nothing else ! How much of that would Chrome OS take up ?

Chrome OS is linux based and a totally different kettle of fish compared to windows. It only takes up 2-3Gb of space.

My Linux Box has a 60Gb SSD and a 3Tb hard drive.
The OS is on the SSD and it only takes up 9Gb total, the rest is free space. with my home directory and media on the 3Tb drive.

My Win7 box on the other hand has a 1Tb main Drive and 420Gb is taken up by the OS and programs.

Kernel_Sanders

GunJack wrote: »

not too much, but it doesn't leave room for that much else.....

S0litaire wrote: »

The OS is on the SSD and it only takes up 9Gb total

"only" 9GB? Well, that scuppers my plan for a 16GB SSD Chromebook dual booting with Ubuntu! So, not only am I restricted to Intel, I will also need it to be 32GB...unless a high capacity Class 10 SD card (USB 3) can be utilised in some way, maybe?

tronator

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

"only" 9GB? Well, that scuppers my plan for a 16GB SSD Chromebook dual booting with Ubuntu! So, not only am I restricted to Intel, I will also need it to be 32GB...unless a high capacity Class 10 SD card (USB 3) can be utilised in some way, maybe?

My Xubuntu installation only uses 5.6GB, but I never would dualboot with such a small SSD. Somewhere you need to store your data too.

S0litaire

tronator wrote: »

My Xubuntu installation only uses 5.6GB, but I never would dualboot with such a small SSD. Somewhere you need to store your data too.

I agree.
I have a laptop with a fresh XP install and it takes up 10Gb before i've added programs

danthemoneysavingman

Keep it set up for caching. My Dell has 32GB SSD used in this way, it's certainly fast enough. Don't do any disk defragmentation with this setup though as the cache then has to be rebuilt. Mine has 24GB for cache leaving 8GB free for general use.
just my opinion as an actual user of such.

MrJester

Definitely not suitable for the OS.
Personally I would use it as a temporary storage for files that would need quick read/write, such as video editing. Other than that, if you can get a cache boost with it I'd go with that.