What is a good amount of memory(gigabytes) for a SSD?I already have a 1 terabyte hard drive.

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hunter315
Grab a ~256GB SSD, they are reasonably cheap these days, you really shouldn't go less than 120GB if you are running it as the main disk in a windows machine.
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It really depends upon what you are going to install to it. Normal Operating System plus a few programs - 120GB is fine. If you have a lot of programs to add to it, you may need 250GB.

I have Windows 8.1, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, Adobe CS6 Master Collection + a few other programs, and use about 85GB of 120GB. You can utilize your 1TB HDD for the other programs....
 
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nitrium

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If you're talking about SSD capacity, then I'd say these days 256GB would be a good entry level point IF you are into AAA gaming. Many new AAA titles have a ~50GB install size now, so a 128GB SSD (with ~120 GB usable space) will be just about 75% full with just a single game (given that Windows 8.1 and a few apps will likely chew ~30GB + another 10GB for the swapfile and user folder etc).
If, on the other hand, you are just building a simple MCPC (and will solely be used for that purpose only), then 64GB would actually be just fine.
 
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