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SyferOnline

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I was wondering if putting games and my OS both on the same SSD would take up a lot of space and wear it down faster? If true, I was going to get a 1tb SSD. I just don't know how many gigs os and programs take up. I know gaming can take up a good amount which is why I was thinking a 1tb or MAYBE a 500gb if thats enough room. I just want to refrain from filling up the SSD.
 
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I'll explain this to you in layman's terms.
Let's say an SSD has 10 sectors, all of them together hold 100GB.
If the SSD has only 50GB on it, the sectors do half the work compared to the SSD being full, thus, prolonging it's life, by half.
Whether the SSD is full or not doesn't matter, the work is still spread over all sectors.
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OS: Reserve 10GB for that.
GAMES: Well, depends on which one, some games are over 50GB.
It's good that you're getting 500GB+ SSD, because I just checked and saw my SSD with only 1.6GB out of 120.
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geofelt

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I have only a single 500gb ssd.
I have perhaps 6-10 games on it, and it is only 50% full.

True, you do not want a ssd to get more than 90% full.
If you mainly only play a few games regularly, then 500gb should be ok.

You can always add another or a hard drive later.
If you play and keep many games, then perhaps 1tb would be better.
Today, buy only Samsung evo for performance and reliability.

No worries about endurance. larger drives will last longer. Perhaps 15-20 years with heavy use.
They will be long obsolete before then.
 
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1. It won't 'wear it down'. That is a long outdated concept.
2. Size is all up to you. Just don't fill it up past about 85%.

OS and regular applications, maybe 100GB.
Games? How many do you have? Some of them are 50+GB.
So...OS + applications + 2 recent games is over a 250GB drive. Upwards from that is all up to you.

EDIT: I just looked - My current Steam games library is ~250GB. Almost all older games, but it adds up quickly.
 
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SyferOnline

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Hmm, how about a 500gb Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe SSD for boot, os and progams, and a 500gb SSD for games? All my music, pictures and videos are going on a 2tb SSHD.
 
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I'll explain this to you in layman's terms.
Let's say an SSD has 10 sectors, all of them together hold 100GB.
If the SSD has only 50GB on it, the sectors do half the work compared to the SSD being full, thus, prolonging it's life, by half.
Whether the SSD is full or not doesn't matter, the work is still spread over all sectors.
------------------------
OS: Reserve 10GB for that.
GAMES: Well, depends on which one, some games are over 50GB.
It's good that you're getting 500GB+ SSD, because I just checked and saw my SSD with only 1.6GB out of 120.
 
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