How much space to leave on ssd?

i have a new ssd, a 60gb ocz agility 3, and was wondering how much free space to leave so it doesnt slow down.
right now i have windows 7 ultimate, photoshop cs5, microsoft office, and some other software. i currently have 24gb free but wanted to install a game or two. all my music and movies are on a secondary 2tb drive. if i fill up the drive will it slow it down? thanks!

From what I have learned, it is best to keep about 20% of an SSD free. In your case that would be about 12GB of space.
With 24, I'm pretty sure you will be okay.
You could also look into clearing space with some SSD Tweaks.

Better yet, disable the swap file on the SSD and put in on your Hard Drive. It'll be there if you need it, but not using up your SSD.

You bought an SSD for speed. While there are many reasons to move the swap files to a HD (wear and tear, room., etc.) just remember that the page file is the most frequently accessed file on the computer.....assuming you are doing something whereby it is needed. If ya have 8 GB of RAM, ya might **consider** turning it off. At 12 GB it's less of a question. Read this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 778-7.html

Or consider a RAM Disk as described here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 778-9.html

The other thing is .... have you moved your user files ? Every time I'm asked to "help" with a full SSD, invariably the biggest % of recoverable space that I find taking up space is in the User file directory, most of it taken up by undeleted e-mails. Move this stuff over to the HD.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutoria [...] ation.html

LOL.. I disagree about moving just about anything off the SSD. Too much emphasis on lifespan and we are slowly learning just how rediculous it is to even take the time to swap all this stuff around.

Another year or 2 and you will see all these tweaks starting to be old news. Only time it's "necessary"?.. is when the user has skimped on capacity for a given workload or outgrown it.

Buy another larger drive or add another for a fast R0 setup and forget about all this stuff if at all possible. Trimming Windows piggish and resource hogging ways can have greater effect than all this stuff combined in most cases.

There's another fallacy being perpetuated. I have had NO failures with my current 6 drive array. No failures on my 8 drive Adaptec 5805 array. None with my Gigabyte(JMicron) array. None with my Mavell array. No failures with my previous 6 drive array(different SSD controller). And 0 failures with another that has been running for nearly 7 years now. EVERY one is an R0.

Even if your hardware(or knowledge) is not up to the task for excelelnt reliability?.. a dedicated backup/recovery strategy is very easy to do(I use Acronis True Image). My secure erase/reimage strategy takes less than 10 minutes for all 6 drives in my array. Even folks that don't have 8 drive HDD arrays to recover images from can do it in less than 20 minutes.

Not all is what it seems with R0 and the benefits are there if the usage is heavier(SSD's use channels and the more the better) or speed is needed. Who doesn't like to save time, right?

The main point was the need for capacity.. and raid can do that as that's the very reason it was created in the first place. The speed with R0 is just a bonus.