**Today Only 12/04/2011** Intel Core i7 970 3.20GHz & OCZ Agility Series 30GB 2.5" SATA-II SSD

30gb is a small drive no doubt, by modern standards but it is enough to serve as a boot drive with windows 7.

My win7 directory is 14.1gb and the program files is 1.5gb.
You would have to choose to install to another drive on many programs eg. installing every office program to such a small ssd drive isnt going to work
 
Gibbo said:
Then explain how come 2 years on I've still got 8GB free space and am coping fine with Windows 7?
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How about with Vista? My Windows folder is 28.3GB :eek:

Also, can you install steam games to different HDDs? e.g. Most played games onto SSD and others onto HDD?
 
How about with Vista? My Windows folder is 28.3GB

Also, can you install steam games to different HDDs? e.g. Most played games onto SSD and others onto HDD?
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I dont imagine vista is larger then win7 . Windows will fit, its the program files that are going to be placed elsewhere. This drive is cheap but having it as the only drive would be fairly nuts

About steam, in brief yes. You can install steam more then once to separate directories or drives or computers and in each directory you can vary the actual games installed.

Obviously the account will always have permission to start downloading all the games to any particular install but if you are more selective, you can put one game on each drive if wanted

Steam itself takes very little space. For example I have on a pendrive Counter strike source, it just fits onto 8gb. That way I can always have it installed on every computer.

To my knowledge SSD helps with BF2 load times and also Arma 2. Not sure what else uses thousands of tiny files. If it dont help that much just install to a normal drive (reload a different steam in the above example), hence 30gb lasts much more.
 
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Really looking for an SSD to finish my system off now but 30gb is just way too small, cmon OCUK lash out the big ones! ;)
 
silversurfer said:
I dont imagine vista is larger then win7 . Windows will fit, its the program files that are going to be placed elsewhere. This drive is cheap but having it as the only drive would be fairly nuts

About steam, in brief yes. You can install steam more then once to separate directories or drives or computers and in each directory you can vary the actual games installed.

Obviously the account will always have permission to start downloading all the games to any particular install but if you are more selective, you can put one game on each drive if wanted

Steam itself takes very little space. For example I have on a pendrive Counter strike source, it just fits onto 8gb. That way I can always have it installed on every computer.

To my knowledge SSD helps with BF2 load times and also Arma 2. Not sure what else uses thousands of tiny files. If it dont help that much just install to a normal drive (reload a different steam in the above example), hence 30gb lasts much more.
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Oddly, my Program Files is less than 1GB (run all games and apps off an additional HDD).

But at 28.7GB already, surely that's too close to the limit - especially if I were to add additional software?

When you say you have CS:S - is that just the one game from Steam you have installed on there? So have you split up the Steam Folder?
 
I installed steam to the flash drive. When I loaded it the first no games are installed. I choose to install just the one game.


Each time you install steam it'll let you choose which game to install, not every game has to be in the same place.
You would need more then one steam directory and so far as I know there is no problem installing steam a dozen times in one copy of windows if you want


I dont know why your vista folder is 28gb big lol Thats a beasty, check out a program called cleanup that empties old temp files
 
silversurfer said:
I installed steam to the flash drive. When I loaded it the first no games are installed. I choose to install just the one game.


Each time you install steam it'll let you choose which game to install, not every game has to be in the same place.
You would need more then one steam directory and so far as I know there is no problem installing steam a dozen times in one copy of windows if you want


I dont know why your vista folder is 28gb big lol Thats a beasty, check out a program called cleanup that empties old temp files
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Ah thanks, didn't know you could install several copies on one Windows - will check that out.

I've got that, and CCleaner. Both run regularly :p
 
Just for the one's who are not sure, I have Win7 64 Home Premium on a 30gb (Kingston) SSD and it fits fine. Left the rest of the space for future updates and I have well over 6gb left. That is more than enough for the future.

Super fast and super snappy. £40 is a bargain imo. I paid closer to double that for mine last summer. :)
 
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