How Many games can I fit on a 512 GB SSD

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arlington19

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I am considering a 512 GB SSD to hold my OS and some games. I would partition 32 GBs for the OS, so I guess my question is really how many games can I fit on 480 GBs.
 
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You are best not to partition it. You want to have space to get updates later and programs.

Likely 50GB is a good estimate for the OS and non-gaming programs. Then average 20GB for each game as some games are right at this, some are nearly twice the size. You would get about 22.5 (counting the SSD as a 500GB since part of is lost from storage advertising BS). Granted you will fit a lot of older smaller games
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You are best not to partition it. You want to have space to get updates later and programs.

Likely 50GB is a good estimate for the OS and non-gaming programs. Then average 20GB for each game as some games are right at this, some are nearly twice the size. You would get about 22.5 (counting the SSD as a 500GB since part of is lost from storage advertising BS). Granted you will fit a lot of older smaller games
 
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You won't get 480GB. First off the formatted size of a 500GB drive is actually 465GB. The same is true for any 500GB drive either SSD or HDD. Then you will have to set aside roughly 10% of that for over provisioning so there goes another roughly 46.5GB leaving you with about 418GB. If you are getting a Samsung drive ( and I recommend you do, they are the best ) then you will have the excellent Magician software to set up the over provisioning as well as optimize your OS.

That being said with my 500Gb 840 Evo I have not had to worry once about uninstalling old games to download new ones like I did with the OCZ Vertex 2 120GB that was my main drive for the 3 years or so before I got the Samsung.

If I was buying new today it would be a Samsung 850. Fastest and most reliable drive on the market. The endurance is insane.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8216/samsung-ssd-850-pro-128gb-256gb-1tb-review-enter-the-3d-era
 
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