Solved New drive C SSD size requirements

[Aidan1]

Hi all

I'm looking to replace my very full Windows C drive with a larger SSD drive. It needs to have space for all Windows updates, MS Office and its updates and game files in My Documents folder. ***What size SSD should I buy to allow space for all this?*** (My current C drive is compressed and has run out of space for more Windows updates and MS Office updates and its used space is about 82GB). I'm using C Cleaner

Many thanks

Aidan

 

[samuria]

Welcome to the forum. The price has fallen now a 480 gig is only £56 smaller ones sent that much cheaper

 

[Megahertz07]

You are talking about your desktop, don't you?
You probably have a HDD

My suggestion:
- Use your actual SSD for Windows and programs. Windows and programs don't use more than 80G.
- Use a HDD only for data.

You'll have the speed of a SSD and the space of a HDD.

Use Kari tutorial to move C:\users to D:\users
Relocate Users

 

[Aidan1]

Thanks for your ideas.

Unfortunately an SSD where I live in South Africa will probably be much more expensive than in the UK or US, and I have a limited budget for it! I'm pretty sure they are a luxury here!

I want to get a new SSD that is easily big enough for Windows, Windows updates and system software like MS Office, I dont need it for anything else since I have a HDD for games and other software.

I would like to get a SSD that will easily be big enough (and never run out of space) but not very large since that would be a waste of money. **Any ideas on what size I should go for?**

Many thanks

Aidan

 

[Megahertz07]

I wold say you don't need a new SSD.
How big is your current SSD?

I have a 128G and it has Windows and Linux. Data is on a HDD.

 

[Aidan1]

My current SSD is 96GB, it was bought in 2012, and is now quite slow (no trim is available for it).

 

[Megahertz07]

As I wrote before your SSD is big enough for Windows and programs if you use a SSD for data.
In my case I have a 128G SSD (one 85G partition for Windows and programs and 43G for Lubuntu) and a 1T HDD for data.
Is important to say that C:\users have been moved to D:\Users and that Virtual memory and temporary folders also has been relocated to D:

- TRIM
Type this cmd
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

It will give you one of two results, either a 0 or a 1. A zero indicates that TRIM is enabled correctly, a one means that it is not. If you have a TRIM-compatible SSD, but find that Windows 7 hasn't enabled the command, you can easily do so by running this command:

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0

 

[Aidan1]

Hi Megahertz

Thanks for your suggestions. I did try your suggestion about fsutil but got a message saying the utility requires administrator privaleges. I previously spoke to Kingston and downloaded a trim utility but it didn't work on my SSD as it is an old model.

I've been worried about my SSD for a while as the free space available has been declining for over a year, despite my attempts to clear space on the drive. The other day it got down to 7GB! I cleared some space and ran check disk and managed to get it back up to 12 GB but this is still less than it should be since I haven't installed any new software to C and have cleared quite a bit of space! I also checked back on my old check disk reports and sure enough the available space on C is less on each subsequent check!

I'm going to try compressing 82 GB of space on my HDD (the same amount of space as is used on my compressed C drive). Once I've got the compressed files on the HDD to equal 82GB then I'll try decompressing them. I can then see how much space the decompressed files take. That should give me a good idea of how much space I'll need on a new SSD to clone my current SSD onto!

I checked prices and I can afford a 120GB SSD.

Aidan

 

[Megahertz07]

To run the fsutil, open the CMD as admin (right click - Run as administrator).
Select and copy the line command and paste it on the CMD window.

Why you going to buy a 128G SSD if the one you have is all you need?

How big is your HDD and how much free space it has?

 

[Aidan1]

I ran Fsutil and got a 0, you said a zero indicates that TRIM is enabled correctly.

As I already said the SSD I have is as slow (as a HDD), and is only 96GB. The free space on the drive fluctuates and drops for no apparent reason. My Computer said there was 7GB free space, so I deleted a 1GB game folder on My Documents, and ran check disk. My Computer then said I had 12 GB free space!

 

[Megahertz07]

Lets see how fast is your SSD
Download CrystalDiskMark
Extract and run

 

[magallaher]

I'd suggest 240-256 GB SSD. I have Kingston UV400 as a system drive and it's pretty enough for Windows, Office and working programmes. Also, it's enough for documents and another stuff. All the rest of my information is on the cloud storage.