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I haven't owned a SSD before. Building new system. PC will be used for gaming, youtube streaming, office stuff etc.

SSD will be system drive with windows, probably win8, maybe win 7. So I will install Microsoft Office, browsers, maybe Adobe Suite, plus various apps. How much space will this take up?

Streaming online videos will also take up space. Windows will increase its footprint with time. And I will also want to install a few different current game titles, like BF4 etc.

How much space do I need? ~120GB enough, or 240GB?

Also, does the SSD perform better with some extra left over space? Like HDDs I think work more effectively when Writing to disk, if the HDD isn't completely filled up.
 
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120GB might be just cutting it for you. I have a few small programs, browser and BF4 on my 128GB SSD on my laptop and desktop and I have about 20GB free on my desktop and about 30GB free on my laptop. With the deal you get nowadays anyway, I'd get a 240GB. There was a Shell Shocker on Newegg where they were selling a damn nice Kingston 240GB SSD for only 120$. You can get a really good deal on them and when you find one I suggest you snap it up. The extra room is really nice to have. Also, 240GB SSDs tend to be quite a bit more responsive than 120GB drives. And to maintain maximum performance and lifetime, they suggest leaving about 15GB free space. When SSDs only have 5GB or less free, they come to a crawl. Hope this helps!
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For me personally with similar requirements, I would have been able to get away with 120GB, but I'd have to keep a close eye on putting any extra junk on there. As a 256GB wasn't that much more, I bought one of those to give myself some extra overhead room.

I'm honestly not sure about the second part of your question. Out of habit, I tend not to fill my drives all the way up.
 
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120GB might be just cutting it for you. I have a few small programs, browser and BF4 on my 128GB SSD on my laptop and desktop and I have about 20GB free on my desktop and about 30GB free on my laptop. With the deal you get nowadays anyway, I'd get a 240GB. There was a Shell Shocker on Newegg where they were selling a damn nice Kingston 240GB SSD for only 120$. You can get a really good deal on them and when you find one I suggest you snap it up. The extra room is really nice to have. Also, 240GB SSDs tend to be quite a bit more responsive than 120GB drives. And to maintain maximum performance and lifetime, they suggest leaving about 15GB free space. When SSDs only have 5GB or less free, they come to a crawl. Hope this helps!
 
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I should have said, i'm in Sweden so US prices don't completely translate. But I think compared to some other products the SSD prices here are quite nice too.

I'm leaning towards the 240GB, just to save the extra work of having to always check that there is enough room on the disk. So I'm kind of deciding between the 840EVO or the Crucial M500 (about ~$30 cheaper), but same 240GB. Although there is a Sandisk and a Transcend at 256GB selling around those prices as well that look good.
 
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Get the Crucial M500, EVO drives use TLC and are therefor slightly less reliable. Both Samsung and Crucial have very good customer service but if the crucial is cheaper, get that.
 
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You're right. I just read some of the reviews, they did change the product without changing the product name, so all the new ones are apparently just barely faster than a mechanical 7.2K RPM drive. You can still get the M500 for pretty cheap though. When they're not on sale, they're about 150$. Not sure how much they would be in Sweden though. Maybe the prices haven't come down for 250GB models yet. In Canada and the US, a 250GB drive usually costs about 40$ more than a 120GB drive, which simply just makes more sense.
 
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Pretty incredible for a company like Kingston to pull a move like that. I looked at those SSDs, but just something about the name "SSD NOW" made me not trust it. Like is SSDNow a different type of SSD from regular types??

m500 120gb costs ~$80, the 240gb version costs ~$150. The samsung EVO is about $30 more. So the difference between the 120GB EVO and the m500 at 240GB is about $40.

So it seems prices on SSD's are fairly comparable between US and europe. I'm probably getting the m500 240gb.
 
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