How much storage is recommended for an ssd that will just carry the ssd and drivers?

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Karadjgne
No such thing as an OS only ssd. There's a bunch of programs that really hate to be on a separate drive, things like MS Office, Adobe, email, AV and more, since they are so intimately tied up with the OS.

My pc runs a 128Gb ssd, it contains the OS, gpu drivers and all the above and there's @40Gb free. But this takes work on any install, manually moving the install to a separate drive, after deciding where it's better served. I've also got 16Gb of ram, so hibernation was dropped and hiberfil.sys deleted which freed up 12Gb on the ssd.

Given the choice 5yrs ago, if budget had allowed I would have skipped the 128Gb in favor of a 250(6)Gb in a heartbeat.

Price, performance, reliability you really have a hard time trying to beat a...
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No such thing as an OS only ssd. There's a bunch of programs that really hate to be on a separate drive, things like MS Office, Adobe, email, AV and more, since they are so intimately tied up with the OS.

My pc runs a 128Gb ssd, it contains the OS, gpu drivers and all the above and there's @40Gb free. But this takes work on any install, manually moving the install to a separate drive, after deciding where it's better served. I've also got 16Gb of ram, so hibernation was dropped and hiberfil.sys deleted which freed up 12Gb on the ssd.

Given the choice 5yrs ago, if budget had allowed I would have skipped the 128Gb in favor of a 250(6)Gb in a heartbeat.

Price, performance, reliability you really have a hard time trying to beat a Samsung 860evo or Crucial MX500, even at the 250Gb range.

You can get SSDs in sizes ranging from 16Gb, 32Gb, 64Gb on up, but those uber small SSDs are only used with Intel rapid storage as a cache, not as a full OS/boot drive as they are too small to accommodate such usage.
 
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