I want only ssd no hdd for my window 7 pc will 250 gb enough

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Bitta Bhullar

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I have amd 8320 processor asus m5a97r2 mobo I want to hav ssd instead of hdd. Am a net surfer and some games will 250 gb Samsung ssd enough for window 7 and my usage
 
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Solandri

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It really depends on the games. Some are a few GB. Others are pushing 30-50 GB.

Remember that you will want to leave about 15%-25% of free space on the SSD. The SSD needs this empty space for its wear leveling and garbage collection algorithms to work. The requirement is towards the low end for the drives whose capacity is in numbers that aren't powers of two (e.g. 250, 500 GB) because they already have some hidden overprovisioned capacity built in.

So figure 25 GB for Win 7, 12 GB (5%) for system restore, 4-8 GB for your swapfile, and however many GB you have RAM if you want a hibernate file. Then add up how much space the games will take. For a 250 GB SSD (232 GB real capacity), if all this adds up to less than about 200 GB, you should be fine, but I wouldn't go much beyond that. (Yes I know Win 7 is more like 14 GB after a fresh install. But once you run all the updates, the WinSxS folder will quickly bloat it past 20 GB. Microsoft badly needs to release another service pack for SSD-only users.)
 
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