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    News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    $129.99 40GB F40 drive could be the ideal boot drive.
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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    How much space does Windows 7, Office (full) and say a bunch of general prgrams for average use take up.

    Is this 40GB drive practicle for a main drive for programs only?

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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Whilst 40Gb is quite tasty for WinXP (OS and apps can be squeezed onto a 4Gb SSD in a eeePC at a pinch), Win7-64bit is a 20Gb install by default (I believe MS state 24Gb to install W7-64), but it can be trimmed down. That does leave plenty of space for apps, but you'd normally leave swap space enabled, and some system restore capability, and if you want hibernate capability too (ram sized lump of space on boot drive)... The 64Gb, or even 80Gb drives offered by competitors may seem rather more desirable.

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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    How much space does Windows 7, Office (full) and say a bunch of general prgrams for average use take up.

    Is this 40GB drive practicle for a main drive for programs only?
    It's fine for my wife's PC (17.5gb free) and my media center (plenty of space on both).
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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Once I take games out of the picture, I'm using 50GB on my C:\. A further 10GB is page file and hiberfil.sys, neither of which need to be on the C:\. A further 10GB is in my Users folder, most of which doesn't need to be on C:\. And another 6.5GB is in winsxs, a folder which seems to grow to absorb most of any disk space left on C:\ (it contains driver backups or something and is best left alone) so would likely be smaller on an HDD with less space.

    So from my point of view it's quite possible with Windows 7, but not a whole lot of fun. I'd say 60GB is a reasonable minimum for people not wanting to faff around moving things off the C:\, but obviously others have had different experiences - dangel, out of interest, how much space is used by which main folders on your wife's PC?

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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Girlfriends PC has a 40Gb Intel drive ... Win 7 32bit + Office + Fireferret + Foobar etc, about 50% free space after about a year on Win7 (was ghosted from the old HDD before anyone says the 40gb drive have only been around for a few months...)

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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    Once I take games out of the picture, I'm using 50GB on my C:\. A further 10GB is page file and hiberfil.sys, neither of which need to be on the C:\.
    I disagree - page to your fastest device, always!

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    A further 10GB is in my Users folder, most of which doesn't need to be on C:\. And another 6.5GB is in winsxs, a folder which seems to grow to absorb most of any disk space left on C:\ (it contains driver backups or something and is best left alone) so would likely be smaller on an HDD with less space.
    WinSXS is Windows Side-By-Side assemblies - it contains support libraries (like MFC or the Visual C runtime) for your apps. And yes, you don't want to play with it!

    Quote Originally Posted by miniyazz View Post
    So from my point of view it's quite possible with Windows 7, but not a whole lot of fun. I'd say 60GB is a reasonable minimum for people not wanting to faff around moving things off the C:\, but obviously others have had different experiences - dangel, out of interest, how much space is used by which main folders on your wife's PC?


    It's a download box/workhorse PC for her job (that's office 2k7 btw). For further info space is roughly:

    2.87gb = Program Files
    1.41gb = users
    11.2gb = windows

    hiberfil.sys is 1.49gb
    pagefile.sys is 2.99gb

    The system has 2gb of RAM - obviously more RAM = more page/hiber. 32bit Win7.

    I'd say it's pretty typical for a general PC - and given how much space i've got free yet i'm sure i'll replace the drive long before i need the extra space.

    My main rig has a much larger SSD but i've only partitioned part of it - i've always viewed games best stored on their own partitions (and the same with Steam) and testing reveals the SSD-based games really don't make a huge difference to loading times (the delays appear to be elsewhere).

    40gb is a good size for a boot drive - but you view it as such. Of course on specialist systems like media centers space is even less of an issue (but god it's nice having the system *instantly* resume from sleep when you hit the remote [no drive spinup!]).
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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    I must admit I turn hibernate off as soon as I install windows, but I'd agree to put page on an SSD - they're very well suited to it. (As it is I have the page file at the start of my second hard drive so I can take advantage of parallel writing when I'm reading from my app drive). But page no longer has to be 1.5x mem, that all changed ages ago so I typically have it at 1gb or so fixed.

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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    I disagree - page to your fastest device, always!
    Hey, I agree - it's best on the SSD. But it doesn't need to be there. Although I suppose the same could be said for programs.




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    It's a download box/workhorse PC for her job (that's office 2k7 btw). For further info space is roughly:

    2.87gb = Program Files
    1.41gb = users
    11.2gb = windows

    hiberfil.sys is 1.49gb
    pagefile.sys is 2.99gb

    The system has 2gb of RAM - obviously more RAM = more page/hiber. 32bit Win7.

    I'd say it's pretty typical for a general PC - and given how much space i've got free yet i'm sure i'll replace the drive long before i need the extra space.
    That's interesting - your Windows folder is 8GB smaller than mine. Looking at it closer it seems like at least part of it is driver backups (nvidia) of which I've installed quite a few through playing around with folding on multiple cards, but that doesn't appear to account for it all by any means.
    Also, my Office folder takes up almost exactly twice as much space as yours, and I don't have all components installed. But my Program Files is only a few hundred MB bigger than yours after taking out the games.

    I guess it looks like mine is a less typical install than I thought, what with ghost drivers and lots of RAM. And of course yours being 32-bit makes a bit of difference

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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    How much space does Windows 7, Office (full) and say a bunch of general prgrams for average use take up.

    Is this 40GB drive practicle for a main drive for programs only?
    My C: drive is 25gb out of 60gb full (64gb stated size). I used to have my games on there but 60gb is not enough for that really, I thought 60gb would be plenty but games take more and more space all the time, so I need a second SSD now! So, 40gb is practical as long as you don't want to install any full games on there, peggle and shatter fine, but nothing big will fit!
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    Re: News - Corsair extends Force Series SSDs with 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    How much space does Windows 7, Office (full) and say a bunch of general prgrams for average use take up.

    Is this 40GB drive practicle for a main drive for programs only?
    More than enough mate.

    I have Win7 64, Office plus a ton of other programs, 2GB of page file and even a single game and there is room to spare.

    As long as you don't use it to store video (or large latest FPS games) 40GB is more than enough.

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