Is a 120Gb ssd enough for windows 10?

[mozza]

Title says it all.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by Bentley:

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

Last, make a normal user account to use for everything. Save the default admin account only for doing upgrades.

I clean junk like that too but for account I don't know why would he have to do that,

It is a general, generic advice for all computers. If a normal account gets hacked/virus then that account does not have full control of the PC. If you are using the admin account and get hacked/virus then it does have full control of everything. One minor thing, sometimes you need to run Steam with admin privilege to install games on an admin account. On a normal user account, they install OK.

[Randy Lahey]

Originally posted by Escorve:

Originally posted by Bentley:

I don't know where're you pulling that out as I have that Kingston SSD, and after switching to it from HDD, a while ago, I noticed a HUGE difference in OS speed.

So trust me, you definitely WILL se a big difference if you switch to it from HDD.

DRAM-less SSDs like the Kingston A400 and Crucial BX500 in some cases can perform almost as slowly as HDDs. I reinstalled Windows for my parents on a Kingston A400 240GB because I didn't know about DRAM vs No DRAM with SSDs, and it was pretty disappointing compared to other SSDs I used that have DRAM, like ADATA SU800 Ultimate.

YouTube™ Video: What Are DRAM-less SSDs? 

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SSDs without their own RAM are appearing on the market as a way to make the speed of an SSD available at lower prices. But is this tradeoff worth it, and why do SSDs even have RAM, anyway?

Patently false. I still have 2 Kingston V300 120GB SSDs, one on my yougest son's PC as the boot drive. I originally had a 1TB WD Blue 7200rpm drive (a very popular and excellent HDD...I have 3 of them). The Kingston drive boots in about 9 seconds, the WD HDD in almost 45 secs. My boot drive is a Crucial NVME drive, takes about 7 secs to boot....so about 2 secs faster than my 10 year old Kingston SSD. ANY SSD will be significantly faster than ANY HDD, no question.

ALso, I agree with others...get at least a 240GB drive, and better yet a 500GB drive. I use 500GB boot drives in my laptop and desktop as they're only about 10% more than a 240GB, although prices have really gone up in the last few months. I would also only get drives from Crucial, WD, Samsung, Intel, and wouldn't buy a DRAM-less one...why would you when the better ones are only a few $ more?

[mozza]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

And just some ideas. After you install windows, get rid of as much crud as you can. Always running weather, sports, news apps? Heck no. Find guides to help you reduce junk if you are new to doing that. Then do a disk cleanup once in a while. including the system files cleanup. And remove all but the latest system restore point once in a while. Last, make a normal user account to use for everything. Save the default admin account only for doing upgrades.

For Steam, and more important, for the game library, do not install under Program files. Make a new directory, like C:\Steam and/or D:\SteamGames. Name how you like.

Got it.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Dont waste your money with lower then 240 GB, if anything I would recommend going 500 GB or 1 TB with new build.

[mozza]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Dont waste your money with lower then 240 GB, if anything I would recommend going 500 GB or 1 TB with new build.

I'm kinda low on money so 120Gb should probably do it.

[Beardface31]

Also wondering about this.. I have a 120gb SSD I was hoping to use for the OS and a few select programs

[Talby]

As someone who has used the A400 specifically to replace HDDs in legacy rigs I can say they are a pretty good improvement

YouTube™ Video: Kingston A400 240gb SSD vs 1TB HDD. Speed comparison CrystalDiskMark. 

Views: 2,845

The Kingston A400 SSD is a very good value ssd in my opinion, it is pretty fast for the price. The program used is CrystalDiskMark7 Please subscribe.

Even compared to expensive / fast hdds

YouTube™ Video: Expensive HDD vs Cheap SSD Loading Games 

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Western Digital VelociRaptor 10000 RPM 500GB vs Kingston A400 480GB Games: RAGE 2 Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 00:17 Watch Dogs 2 - 00:53 Grand Theft Auto V - 01:36 Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 02:09...

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Talby:

As someone who has used the A400 specifically to replace HDDs in legacy rigs I can say they are a pretty good improvement

YouTube™ Video: Kingston A400 240gb SSD vs 1TB HDD. Speed comparison CrystalDiskMark. 

Views: 2,845

The Kingston A400 SSD is a very good value ssd in my opinion, it is pretty fast for the price. The program used is CrystalDiskMark7 Please subscribe.

Even compared to expensive / fast hdds

YouTube™ Video: Expensive HDD vs Cheap SSD Loading Games 

Views: 270,782

Western Digital VelociRaptor 10000 RPM 500GB vs Kingston A400 480GB Games: RAGE 2 Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 00:17 Watch Dogs 2 - 00:53 Grand Theft Auto V - 01:36 Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 02:09...

DRAMless SSDs are still a bad value for those who care enough. SSDs with DRAM are in the same price ranges.

[pasa]

Sure. You can move fat passive folders to HDD replacing them with symlink, the real part is not that big. You can do the same with installed programs too if it starts to fill up.

[UserNotFound]

I had a Corsair 120GB Force GT SSD in what was my main rig from 2011/2012, that SSD cost me plenty back then but lasted a long time as my OS drive. I'd have to periodically clean the drive of unneeded programs, as well as do drive cleanups as well. I tried to maintain a safety margin of at least 40GB of free space for updates and such.

I'd used that 120GB SSD as OS drive for years, and I never ran out of space. It was only about a couple of years back that, I was on an upgrade tear then, I'd upgraded to a 250GB SSD as OS drive. The 120GB SSD isn't going to waste, neither am I gonna try to sell off such an old SSD, I'd order an SSD enclosure so I can use it to transfer larger files among my three rigs.