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okay forget that for now, i will look in to whats mentioned thank you.

quickly doing it i made new question to new title at the bottom of the comments before thinking to alter this part, so just scroll down as normal. cheers.
 
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You're going to have issues on a 32GB SSD - it won't be able to do the larger windows updates. I wouldn't consider anything less than 120GB. I'm surprised you've got as far as you have.

If you want to free up some space, set the pagefile and hybernate file to be on another disk. Do a disk cleanup, clean up system files, delete restore points, then select the extra stuff added to the list like prev versions of windows etc.
If you know what you're doing you can relocate c:/users/X to another disk.
 
you need to have some extra space on the ssd for TRIM and garbage collection to actually work, else the performance may suffer.
used to be said 75% of SSD capacity should be the limit
 
thanks for replies.

i got it because i was intrigued and had intended to use it with my am1 system that im now selling, so originally i wouldve had xbmc distro to stream to, but to make sure it worked i installed windows so just stuck with it, it has gone down to 2gb now, but thats because some things i was downloading didnt go to my 2nd drive, but if i download anything under chrome browser now then i have it set to go in a folder i created on my hdd, im not use to windows 10, im also not that use to ssd's, so right now im trying to make the most of it, im not having any issues, i just wanted to know what i should be doing to offload space eating stuff.

i will get a better ssd in time, just a gpu was more priority to make my computer usable to me and a 1050ti seemed too good to pass up, i wont get rid of the ssd as i like it.
 
At the time people were buying 32GB/64GB SSDs they were really expensive, but people wanted them, so they did a bunch of optimisation to get their Windows installs to fit, most of those optimisations turned out to be mistakes.

Time has moved on, you can get a 120GB SSD for not much at all, or stretch to 250GB or 500GB if your budget allows. That's the right move.
 
billysielu said:
At the time people were buying 32GB/64GB SSDs they were really expensive, but people wanted them, so they did a bunch of optimisation to get their Windows installs to fit, most of those optimisations turned out to be mistakes.

Time has moved on, you can get a 120GB SSD for not much at all, or stretch to 250GB or 500GB if your budget allows. That's the right move.
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thanks for the input.

i paid like £10-15 for it weeks ago, got it from shop, as i said above, i was going to run xbmc on it and either stream my movies or connect a hdd either as an internal or external that would house my movies save it all being on one drive, i just now happen to use it as my boot drive for windows currently, as i said, its not causing any issues right now i just needed to know what else i should be doing like.
 
okay so i had always been looking for a larger ssd anyways and on the zon as i have prime i could buy a 64gb for £21 or a 128gb for £31 with free delivery and get them tomorrow where as teamgroup will be £44 with the delivery and will have to wait days, trouble is the 128gb im talking about is called KingSpec, never heard of them, but pretty good customer reviews on various sizes from said brand, i cant link obviously, but this is what title is given on sites
KingSpec 128GB SSD 2.5-inch SATAIII 6GB/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive.

i know theres top brands and average brands, but i didnt even know of transcend or what they were like before i purchased mine and its been fine obviously as im using it.
 
tamzzy said:
that's actually quite a well renowned taiwanese brand, at least around asia.

kingspec on the other hand...
not to say that it's bad, but i'd say avoid, unless you aren't worried about losing the data
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well it only be the boot drive, so windows/updates/application short cuts, so im not too worried i suppose, but you can lose data on any drive, i have a 1tb with a lot of personal files and stuff that i cant access because it just ticks, so theres 50/50 years of stuff lost, so gone beyond caring for minimal stuff.

anyways rather than babble on with irrelevant crap, the next cheapest 120gb for under £40 ive seen are kingston 300v series or kingston of some kind. only reason im looking at the zon is because of prime and being able to get things tomorrow or saturday(apart from sf450 psu lol).


sorry these are the next ones:

SanDisk SSD PLUS 120 GB Sata III - £36
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120 GB - £36
Western Digital SSD Green 120GB - £34

probably odd other ones, but cant look anymore right now.

 
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if getting from there, then
SanDisk SSD PLUS 120 GB Sata III 2.5-inch Internal SSD, Up to 530 MB/s
it's also sub £40, with prime too

or Western Digital SSD Green 120GB 2.5 7mm SATA Gen 3 for £2 cheaper
 
32 is about good for xmbc or as a boot for a linux system?

OCUK do a TeamGroup SSD for £29.99 in the 128GB size just keep an eye on the prices,could be at £35.99 now.
 
30gb is manageable on Windows 7 if you barely install anything and have a secondary drive for pagefile.
 
only had 4 minutes to do it so hopefully i transferred money in time lol(order confirmed, but ordered it before money transfer), but i went with the 120gb WDG, most of my hdd's are of WDB & WDG, so i really like their products and what read to have similar performance or a slight edge to that sandisk model, at £33 delivered it was a no brainer, so should be here tomorrow or saturday latest.

the 240gb wdg version was just over £60 and didnt really want to push that far, spent too much this week as is lol, but 120gb has been plenty in a laptop under win7 before, so should be plenty for what i need.
 
APM said:
32 is about good for xmbc or as a boot for a linux system?

OCUK do a TeamGroup SSD for £29.99 in the 128GB size just keep an eye on the prices,could be at £35.99 now.
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thanks for the reply, but im not doing the xbmc setup anymore, im focusing on my main computer, but the 128gb teamgroup is now at £35.99, it was more the case of price and delivery and didnt want to pay more to wait days when an equal or better drive came up cheaper just 8gb less storage.
 
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