Solid State SATA

[ants83]

could i fit vista on a 16gb drive? could i shrink down vista if need be?

 

[Aod]

just about, but you'd only have about 5GB of space left

 

[matt100]

You can go much smaller than that!!!

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9060378

1.5GB

God knows how much you would have to chop out but I imagine there's a sweet spot of a few GB that just chops out loads of the accessories etc.

 

[Wiggins]

You can remove a bucket load of unused features with NLite.

As long as you currently have enough HDD space for 2 copies of Vista while you do it.