do i seriously need a 120GB SSD for an OS?

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otisriedel

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my OS that i will be using is windows 7 home premium 64bit for gaming. 120GB sounds like bull for an OS. is this true? i'm trying to cut costs but i am going to put my OS on an SSD.
 
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By putting nothing but the OS on an SSD, the only thing you're really improving is your boot time; nothing is really loaded or dumped to the disk once Windows is already loaded into memory. I'm not sure I'd recommend even buying an SSD in the first place if this is all you're using it for, since it's a pain to keep redirecting things away from your C: drive to avoid running it out of space; a single HDD would probably work just as well, and a lot more easily.

Wolfshadw

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Do you need an SSD? No.
Will you gain some performance with an SSD? Depends on what you're expecting.

Whatever you install onto the SSD will respond much faster. But it the majority of the programs you make calls to (games and such) are not on the SSD, then the gains are less noticeable.

If you're just installing the OS onto the SSD and everything else onto a standard HDD, then you should be able to get away with something much smaller. There's a recent thread where folks here have full OS installs onto 20/32GB SSDs.

-Wolf sends

An SSD just means faster access to data stored on it. If you're not accessing that data very often, then, no. You don't need an SSD.
 

someguynamedmatt

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By putting nothing but the OS on an SSD, the only thing you're really improving is your boot time; nothing is really loaded or dumped to the disk once Windows is already loaded into memory. I'm not sure I'd recommend even buying an SSD in the first place if this is all you're using it for, since it's a pain to keep redirecting things away from your C: drive to avoid running it out of space; a single HDD would probably work just as well, and a lot more easily.
 
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