Ocz petrol 64gb

toasteh · 13 Apr 2012 at 16:51

Would this be good enough just for windows and the odd program? Or am I better off going for a ~120gb model?

wazza300 · 13 Apr 2012 at 18:47

go 120gb,youll only wish you had when the 64gb is full

toasteh · 13 Apr 2012 at 19:14

well from what i've been able to figure out c:\windows and my program files only adds up to ~40gb, is there anything else that would end up on the ssd rather than my hdd?

hopeful_builder · 13 Apr 2012 at 19:35

I nearly went for a 60Gb drive, but seriously go for at least 120GB. at the moment with windows office and a few other essentials I have 44GB free out of 111GB (thats what 120GB is formatted)

Its nice have a bit of headroom. I regularly encode video and edit photos. I just drop them on to the SSD for quickness and work on them, then drag them back to a larger 2TB storage drive once im done with it.

I didn't want to spend the extra on a 120GB drive, but in the end - now ive actually used one Im glad I did!

andy_mk3 · 14 Apr 2012 at 00:38

toasteh said:
well from what i've been able to figure out c:\windows and my program files only adds up to ~40gb, is there anything else that would end up on the ssd rather than my hdd?

The 64GB drive will only have around 59GB when formatted, so that leaves you with 19GB free at the most. Running a drive near full, an SSD especially, is not good for it at all.