Recommend a good safe ssd size for OS?

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I want to pick up an ssd, but I have a few questions. Mainly what would be a good decent size for the OS? I know bigger is better, but I don't want to spend alot of money, but at the same time I want enough room for the OS, and take into consideration and future installs like updates. I have a second, regular HDD that I'll use for most of my programs, games, etc. i want enough room on the ssd for maybe 2-3 games, as I will only install a game or two on the SSD For games that need it, like battlefield4, etc, and I will just uninstall or move the game to the regular HDD when I won't play it as much.

I was thinking about getting a 256gb drive, mostly to future proof. I want wiggle room so I don't have to constantly manage the SSD storage, so you guys think that might be a safe ballpark? I was also considering dual booting, but the other OS would probably just have the OS on it, nothing else.

Since I am going to mainly just use the ssd for the OS, will I notice any serious speed gains? I have windows 8 64-bit, and honestly my system already feels fast enough for my needs, but I would like the reliability of SSD, and wouldn't mind the speed increase. Since the OS is on the SSD, would any games that I'd install on the secondary, HDD load any faster? Thanks :)

 
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Haha, I was actually JUST looking at that same exact hybrid, but honestly I already have a 2tb HDD, which is what I'm going to use as my secondary, but if I'm gonna invest in the money, an SSD would be faster than a hybrid drive anyway.

So, you think considering what I said I wanna use my SSD for, anything 128 or above should be fine? Including the wiggle room? Like I said, everything else will be on the HDD, just the OS And 1 or two games, plus whatever windows updates and such that need to be on the SSD
 
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Yes...a 128 or above will work just fine.
My current 128 has Win8Pro, and ALL applications aside from games. Currently ~50GB used.
 
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Oh that's good to hear. I know someone who has a 128gb ssd and even after doing all the ssd optimizations, moving folders and such to a secondary drive (we followed a guide) he kept having space issues. Probably something he kept doing wrong, lol. But it was worrying me about making the jump. I'm the one that had to keep reinstalling/reconfiguring his setup, and every time, shortly after he would contact me complaining about space issues lol.

Anyways, thanks. I think I'll go 250gb, for the extra space and dual boot. Was worried even that wouldn't be enough haha :)

What are your thoughts on the samsung evo? I hear its great for regular use.

Thanks again :) you responded quickly lol
 
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Seagate claims a boot time of 10 seconds on the SSHD...that's same as the better SSDs .... I havent seen it confirmed tho .... Seagate's last generation SSHDs were 1 second slower than the last generation SSDs
 
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