featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 Would you have a small SSD (say 60GB) as your primary OS drive, and other programs like photoshop/office with a 2nd SSD (say 250GB) as your secondary drive for games and the like? My boss and I are questioning this for his new build and want to get a consensus.
mdench Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 We use 120GB SSDs in ours then bung in an extra 500gb disk for the PCs in our office for shoving random stuff on it. our base image is round 60 - 70Gb so works out nicely for us and very speedy image includes the likes of photoshop, auto cad software, Unreal Development Kit etc 1
LosOjos Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 It's do-able, but I wouldn't personally. I have a 120GB SSD for Windows 8 in my home machine and that filled up really quickly. Admittedly, I do have a few programs I use regularly sitting on there too (including CS5) but nothing else. My "Users" folders are moved as far as possible to an HDD (using Windows own tools to do so as simlinks have been reported to break Windows Updates; upside no compatibility problems, downside additional space taken up by AppData) My second drive is 300GB HDD used for programs and videos; that's almost full. My third drive is a 1TB RAID1 with important documents as well as games on it (with an internet connection as slow as mine, I'd rather take the RAID performance hit than have to download them all again if I had a HDD failure!) - that too is about 75% full now. It all comes down to how much space you personally use, I know I use a lot compared to some people because I'm also a photographer (about 1/3 of the 1TB RAID is taken up with photos), but I do think that unless you can afford a 480GB SSD, at the moment your money is still better spent on a moderate sized (120GB+) SSD for Windows and core programs plus a large HDD or, better still SSHD, for storage. 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 well he would use the 60GB for windows, photoshop, office, maybe skype. he would use the 250GB for game installs and a 500GB for other bits (photoshop files, documents, pictures, videos etc).
fairm010 Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 At home I have a 120GB SSD running Windows and my steam library and a 1TB HDD with my music / photos / docs etc. Works perfectly! 2
LosOjos Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) well he would use the 60GB for windows, photoshop, office, maybe skype. he would use the 250GB for game installs and a 500GB for other bits (photoshop files, documents, pictures, videos etc). That extra 500GB for pure storage is a very good idea and could make this workable, but you will probably have to simlink the Users folder away from the 60GB drive or it'll fill up in no time. Just read up on all the pit falls that go with that; I know a lot of people had major headaches trying to upgrade to Windows 8.1 because of it, think the end result was backing up the folders, removing simlinks, applying update, restoring simlink, restoring backups... I was too lazy so accepted my fate with Windows' limited library redirection EDIT: although it is worth noting, the PC I'm talking about has 3 users so if it's a single logon machine, 60GB might be enough for Windows with basic library redirection Edited January 30, 2014 by LosOjos 1
Rawns Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 At home I have a 120GB SSD running Windows and my steam library and a 1TB HDD with my music / photos / docs etc. Works perfectly! +1 for this. I have a 120GB Samsung Pro SSD for O/S, programs like Office etc, and a 1TB Barracuda HDD for my Steam library and other games. All my music, movies etc are on a NAS. I also have a 2nd 300GB HDD for misc storage (fraps recordings, audio/video conversions, downloads, temp files etc). Oh, oh, and a old external 300GB USB drive for VirtualBox images. 1
Fleetwood Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) I currently have 120GB SSD for the OS and any 'core'/frequently used programs. I then have a 1TB HDD dedicated for games (either Steam Lib or standalone,) then another 500GB HDD for other software packages & anything I consider to be Miscellaneous. As for the user profile, since it's only me that uses it I keep mine on the SSD but redirect Photos & Music to the 500GB, I just change the default save location and alter the libraries to point to it. Works well for me, might be doing a restructure soon though Edited January 30, 2014 by Fleetwood 1
unixman_again Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 My box has 120GB (RAID 1), with the last 15 years of my life on it and it's only used 70GB and that includes the o/s. Mind you I take my many photos using film (which go into my photo album) and I don't download videos. As LosOjos said, it all depends on what you want to keep. If I was keeping huge amounts of stuff, I'd have a small disk with the o/s and programs on and a big RAIDed array for my data. It doesn't matter too much if you lose the o/s but it matters a lot if you lose your data. I would also backup the array to external media; when my box shuts down it rsync's any changes to an external disk. 1
zag Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 We use 180GB SSDs now. Keeps the power low and no more disk failures. I don't see any reason to install legacy mechanical hard disks any more. You can buy a 1tb SSD for 400 quid these days. 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 doubt he'd would not upgrade to windows 8(or 8.1) for a long time.
Rawns Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 I don't see any reason to install legacy mechanical hard disks any more. If you have 800GB of games downloaded, then a mechanical drive is a lot more cost effective then some monster sized SSD's! 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 oh and it is for a personal build, not a business one
jbailey Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 Home machine is a work laptop - 120gb ssd for OS and 2nd 120gb ssd for virtual machines. Works for me, I have some large ISO files on the OS drive but I'm not a gamer\media hoarder so its 50% free. But 60gb for a os drive is not big enough in my opinion. 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 Even though it would only be Windows 7, MS office and Photoshop?
CHR1S Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 We have started using 60Gb SSDs here now for our base images, approx 30Gb and are around £40 a pop too 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 General consensus so far.... 60GB good for base image of windows, office and photoshop 250GB good for game installs 500GB good for media
Mr.Ben Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 We bought some 64GB SSD's for the office and they are more than enough - the prices are plummeting though - I would go £128 for £49.99 now. I've got Win 8, RSAT Tools, CS5.5 Master Edition, Office, Chrome, Firefox, Cunninghams Client and Net2Access installed - 10GB spare. 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 @Mr.Ben where are you getting 128GB for £50? and what brand?
JonDaviesBourne Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 +1 on the SSD for OS and HDD for everything else. I run an i7 3770k @ 4.5Ghz, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ ~2133MHz with a 60GB Corsair Force3 SSD, boots in about 5-7 seconds. Considering getting another SSD to use for caching & installing regularly used programs on for the faster load speeds. 1
LosOjos Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 Windows 7 x64: 20GB Microsoft Office 2013: 3GB Adobe Photoshop CS5: 1GB That's nearly half the drive gone before you add in user profiles, windows/office updates, driver installations... 60GB won't last long 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) remember, it is for a personal build, not a school build or a business build! Drivers I imagine would be another 1GB Updates on office have yet to hit over 2GB combined Updates for windows have yet to hit over 2GB combined (excluding SP1, or the updates it has bundled in) Edited January 30, 2014 by featured_spectre
Rawns Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) General consensus so far.... 60GB good for base image of windows, office and photoshop 250GB good for game installs 500GB good for media If I've learnt anything over the years, it's that space goes. FAST. No matter how much of it you have. I'd still say a minimum of 120GB for O/S and programs. I'm up to 80GB already on my 120GB SSD with Win 7, Office, a few more programs, iTUnes etc. My old rig had a 300GB HDD purely for steam and it soon got filled! Depends on how much of a gamer he is. Got 300GB free now on my 1TB gaming drive. And as for media, 1TB minimum dependant on size and quanty of media files. My 1TB NAS is almost full. Edited January 30, 2014 by Rawns 1
featured_spectre Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 Well I put it like this, he is pretty much certain nothing but windows, office, photoshop and maybe skype will go on SSD1. Games will go on SSD2 (he has a few he plays regularly, and the rest he will install/uninstall at his leisure). Media well, he has films, pictures, songs etc.
LosOjos Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 It seems to me your mind is already made up... Last thing I'll say - you can never have too much space. 2
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