What size SSD as a boot drive?

Jay343434 said:
Yep and they’re getting worse. I have a 480gb NVMe as an OS drive and it didn’t take long for space to be taken and I don’t have many games on there...
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Are you with the latest 1709 version (Fall Creators Update)? If not, update your W10, and then clean up the SSD. You will have maybe up to 25GB cleaned.
Also, clean up the MS Office updates, it's the best to switch them off completely.
 
4K8KW10 said:
Are you with the latest 1709 version (Fall Creators Update)? If not, update your W10, and then clean up the SSD. You will have maybe up to 25GB cleaned.
Also, clean up the MS Office updates, it's the best to switch them off completely.
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Yeah I’m fully updated. To be fair I’ve not done much optimisation yet as I’m going to be changing motherboard, so I’ll be doing a fresh install.
 
A 64GB drive is sufficient space as a Win 10 OS drive in normal circumstances, but then the more stuff you want to install the more space on top of that you will need.
 
I use a 120GB SSD as a Windows drive and the bloat is real..... I would honestly suggest 240GB + as a boot drive these days. Sad... but I mean, at least SSD's are affordable now.
 
I'd go for 250GB+

Plenty of room for windows, apps and a few games (unless you install GoW4)


If literally just installing windows, 120GB is fine.
 
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Turning Hibernation off (most of you here will already do that but for newbies to SSD who may read this) will save a bit of room. Also I've been running without a Page File for nearly a year with no issues (but others could run into a program that demands one). But best to do that with 16GB RAM minimum.

doopydug said:
I was planning on using it only as a boot drive and using a 1TB drive for games
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If you just want it as boot drive then 120GB no problem. I'm only using 26.3GB on mine after four years (have a separate SSD for games and two HDDs for Misc and backup).
 
i have a 32GB SSD that runs an OS but nothing more will fit on it.
so the minimum SSD size for boot drive with win10 is 32gb

i would say 120GB would be my minimum for a system that will be used day to day, but a lot still use 60gb SSD's

if you want it to be cheap why not run a boost drive to cache the 1tb drive and use that for OS too, 32GB drive boosting the 1TB drive dose still have its place in the world and it make the full system more snappy not just the OS
 
I would say 120 G is more than adequate but if you don't keep any eye on the page/swap/hiber files plus the Windows update files and previous versions kept after a significant update it can get eaten up.
 
240gb is a good size for a system drive plus all your apps and a couple of currently played games.

I almost went with a 120gb, but I'm appreciative of the extra room. I have a terabyte of additional HDD storage for music and films and downloads, which I also install small games to that don't need much loading time.

I do feel a 120gb might get a bit constricted unless you are happy having only one 'big' game installed at a time along with your usual suite of apps and tools, and you could end up juggling data between drives on occasion.

If it's just a basic office /Internet machine then 120gb would be fine.
 
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I would say a minimum of 250GB these says. It’s not expensive. My OS is a 500GB 960 Pro, I have that, Office, regular apps and two Forza games which consume 100GB Each. So it will soon run down. Fortunately I have another 3.5TB of SSD Storage and a 8TB HDD.
 
Been using a 120gb for a few years as boot/most used apps drive.

Has windows, office, visual studio, various other coding platforms, load of small apps and I m using 80gb.

Couple of other ssd's for games.
 
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