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I just got a P75-A7200 last month and have decided to get an SSD, i want to put the OS and all my programs- W.O.T.,MS Office, all the stock apps, and Toshiba apps, all on the SSD. trouble is I don't want to get a big one, anything over 128 is just to expensive and seems to big. I want to know how to calculate just how much I need. I read that if you take the size of the Users file and subtract it from the total used on your C:/ than you get the OS (including backups at 6gb) and programs, thing is mine comes out to around 100gb, is there something that I am missing here or are my numbers really right?

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For a similar use case:
My 128GB Kingston SSD - Win 8.1 Pro, and ALL applications. MS Office, Corel Video Studio, Paintshop Pro, Adobe Lightroom, etc, etc, etc....a CRAPLoad of other stuff.

~51GB used space.

Applications don't really take up that much space.
Movies/music/video/games do. Those live on other drives.
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This is not true. For a HDD, yes as the fuller it gets the closer to the outside it gets which slows down but a SSD is all the same, empty or full in terms of performance.

To the OP, a Samsung 120GB 840 Evo is $83 bucks:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247

That is less than $1/GB for one of the best and fastest SSDs on the market.

It would not hurt to have a bit of extra space as the one thing about SSDs is they have limited write cycles, although to kill a 120GB SSD you normally have to write to it all day for at least 3-5 years before the cells fully degrade.

You can go with cheaper ones like the Kingston 128GB for $65 bucks or even 60GB ones for about the same price but in all honesty their reliability compared to the Samsung or say and Intel is just not as good.
 
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the read speed would not slow down but write speed will a bit as the controller will have to spend more time looking for empty cells and will have to do more garbage collections, which is harder with less space. you should generally use at most 80% of the storage for optimal performance
 
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Oay but is my math right? and I was thinking the EVO or the PNY 240gb for 90 dollars.
 
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For a similar use case:
My 128GB Kingston SSD - Win 8.1 Pro, and ALL applications. MS Office, Corel Video Studio, Paintshop Pro, Adobe Lightroom, etc, etc, etc....a CRAPLoad of other stuff.

~51GB used space.

Applications don't really take up that much space.
Movies/music/video/games do. Those live on other drives.
 
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I would do a Samsung Evo. Way better quality than PNY which is just about as cheap as you can get.

Thing is with SSDs, if they go bad you can't get data from them as easily as you can a HDD that has gone bad.
 
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is the difference between the evo and pro worth the money, oh and a recent check corrected the original post and the size is around 85gb.

thanks for the answers.
 
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When Samsung first launched the 840 series, the Pro was worth the money as it had much higher write/read speeds and IOPS. But the Evos have closed the gap considerably and have certain features the Pros do not which help speed it up a bit more.

In short, no the Pro is not worth the extra money over the Evo.
 
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