Im looking at getting a 64GB SSD SATA III as my boot drive plus games and applications. Then I'll have something like a 2TB HDD for storage (movies, pics, music, ect). Does anyone know how much space Win7 home takes up? Will i have enough room left over for some apps and 3 or 4 of my most played games? I can't decide if it's worth it to get an ssd. It seems like installing and reinstalling games and apps on two different drives would get annoying. Would the speed i get be worth it? or should I just get one "high-end" HDD? The SDD I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441
I think 64 gbs would be a bit small for what you want. I just installed 7 pro on a drive and installed a few games from steam, and its already taken up 100gbs of space. Granted, it depends on the size of the games and such but you may run out of space rather quickly if the games you play are 7+gigabytes in size each. Especially if you use steam, because as far as I know, it only installs to your C drive so once you run out of room, you have to start uninstalling stuff before you can download more. Thats actually the reason I just upgraded my HD to a 1 terabyte WD black drive and so far its running fine with no issues. For the cost, I think it is a better deal than the SSDs right now. I think it was around 70-80 dollars for this drive.
Agree with Wildcard. Some games these days can even run up to 13gbs... and 4 games of that size will run you 52gbs... And according to Microsoft's webpage, you'll need "16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)" to install Windows 7.
Thanks, this information has been very helpful. I think what I'll do is just have one "high-end" HDD in my pc. I found a western digital 2TB 7200rpm 64mb cache. I would like to go for a 15000rpm, but it seems like all HDD's at that speed are off-brand, small capacity, and small cache. Would a 15000rpm HDD be twice as fast as a 7200rpm HDD?
This is my advice, your best price/performance is going to be a RAID-0 array. You can take a great hard drive such as this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185 , and RAID array it with an identical drive to get at least double the speed. Particularly access speed. You see in RAID 0 the two drives each get exactly half the data. So when it is read back it is reading from both drives at the same time. I would say that this is a great option for you if you want near SSD performance and lots of storage without breaking your bank. In fact I believe that you could buy two of these 1TB s@msung drives for less then one 64 gb ssd.
