How Much Storage Does Windows 7 Need

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Jul 14, 2009

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Currently I have Windows 7 on my computer on a 320GB Difficult Drive. I'yard a big figurer geek and want a SSD but they are very expensive. My plan was to get a pocket-sized ane, similar between 32GB and 64GB because they are non as expensive. There effectually $100 to $200 at those sizes. I don't have a lot of coin then that is my budget. I need to know how much space does Windows seven take up. I plan on installing it on the SSD and a few games and then use the normal drive for storage. I actually want one because I seen how much faster they are and I similar speed. I seen people test out how long it takes for a game to load with a SSD bulldoze which I would similar because Medal of Honour: Airborne takes forever to load.

May 30, 2007

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I have Windows 7 Pro 64bit installed on my ssd. I did a clean install and did the space saving tweaks 2 months ago. Windows currently uses merely a little fleck over 21GB on my pc. A 60GB ssd is more than sufficent for Windows 7 and a few software applications. My yard total with software applications and utilities is 36GB used. As you can meet sminlal wound up with a total of 53GB. How much capacity is required depends on what software is going to be installed. If you install games on a ssd, and so the space used will increase chop-chop.

Dec 16, 2008

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I'd go as high as possible space wise (in range of your upkeep, of class). Windows 7 64-bit can "grow" betwixt 15-20GB with the page files, temp files, etc... If you went with a 64GB SSD, yous'll be alright with a few other programs on there also.

Jul 10, 2009

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My Windows 7 system uses 53GB. It has no pagefile, merely it does accept a 10GB hibernate file. I take Microsoft Part 2007, Visio, and Visual Studio 2008, Adobe Web Premium CS4 (includes Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Flash, etc.), as well as a couple of dozen other smaller apps. No games. For that amount of space I'd consider 80GB to be the minimum.

Jul 24, 2010

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40GB will probably be OK. Just if yous use some heavy programs like 3d modeling you volition get it strart faster if you install them on SSD. Then 80GB seems to be preferred.

Mar 3, 2009

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Aug 14, 2011

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I also intended to purchase a cheap SSD for my win7 installation and then employ a large capacity conventional HD for all of my other applications/file storage, the reason being that I desire to make my media center boot equally fast equally possible from cold.

my question would be how can I make certain my win7 installation is equally clean as possible and that all additional information that installs in association with the operating system goes to the ssd and not the Hd.

my gauge is that this would largely happen automatically simply if anyone with greater technical experience could propose on particular bug that would make this approach problematic I would similar to know.

At the moment this seems to me to be the nigh economic way to make use of ssd drives I am as well enlightened of hybrid drives only I don't see them as a long term solution.

ultimately ssd may sally as a price effective storage solution just right now its but not competitive with conventional HD'south...

May 30, 2007

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I have Windows seven Pro 64bit installed on my ssd. I did a clean install and did the space saving tweaks two months ago. Windows currently uses simply a little bit over 21GB on my pc. A 60GB ssd is more than sufficent for Windows vii and a few software applications. My one thousand full with software applications and utilities is 36GB used. Every bit you can see sminlal wound upwardly with a total of 53GB. How much capacity is required depends on what software is going to be installed. If yous install games on a ssd, so the space used will increase rapidly.

Oct 3, 2006

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My Windows 7 system uses 53GB. It has no pagefile, just it does have a 10GB hide file. I have Microsoft Function 2007, Visio, and Visual Studio 2008, Adobe Web Premium CS4 (includes Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Flash, etc.), equally well as a couple of dozen other smaller apps. No games. For that amount of space I'd consider 80GB to be the minimum.

Practice y'all use your hibernate choice? I've turned mine off as I never utilise information technology and I couldn't afford to accept 10 Gb consumed for zip!!

February 22, 2007

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Mine - 33 Gigs. No Hibernation, Page file limited to one gig and set up to a second SSD data drive.
NO games, Office, paintshop, blu-ra,aayby half a dozen other soft ware apps loaded.

Me - Min siz 64/80 gig, recommended 90->128 Gig.

• #10

I know you guys were trying to help, but you neglected a better solution that fits easily in his budget. Buy an SRT enabled MOBO and SSD package to supervene upon that erstwhile motherboard. A tiny 20GB SSD would plug into the mSATA port next to the CPU on the mobo, and would retain a copy of only the near frequently used programs. (Copying all of windows to a SSD is rather a waste material since you only use a fraction of it). He tin can go a MOBO for under 100 bucks and the SSD for less than 50, that puts him in well nether budget while he keeps everything else from his previous system. Fifty-fifty if his previous processor is incapable, he tin get a dual core pentium for under lxxx bucks - however in his range and with a TREMENDOUS heave in speed for the overall organization (with less power usage required due to the new system specs).

Cooler, more than stable, faster than but adding a 500gig SSD to his existing arrangement, what's not to love>? (Whatsoever idiot has to realise that the new SATAIII he would get on the mSATA mobo would rock his world.)

Mar 15, 2012

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Im hunting for this reply for both WINXP Pro SP3 and WIN7 Pro 64-bit also. i found out exactly what the OS takes for ea. The resonses here gave food for idea besides. Flash drives just began announcing sales for 64 GB USB drives. Thats another topic too if you want to kick off of them...now yous can! I want to throuw our one pc of info also. Consider that the OS takes an approx amt of retention merely also figure in amts of progs you lot will install: A/5, WP Suite, a game or two (yous tin install i at a time and and then uninstall when not playing), some shareware like HULU, Pandora, etc. Take out your calc and tally it all up. Thats what you demand for an SSD. Good sales now too on newegg.com and amazon.com as usual. Just saw a 128 GB SSD for a nifty price yesterday on the Egg. Most applications desire to pin themselves to the drive the Os resides on and then that volition be all of the utils & games you take in addition to the OS. Y'all can use a reg HD, USB drive or even flash media externally off a USB reader for storing annihilation else. Equally long as the progs dwell on the drive the OS lives on to open them up. I sometimes had funky exps when installing my RPG games on a bulldoze i used just for storage. I always accept iii-iv 1TB WD drives in my example for storage. Some of my games tin run 80GB! ea. I never install more 2 at a time and i have quite the selection. Hope this hlps...w/sales at present, you lot can afford the 128GB SSD going for $90 or so...

Feb 17, 2013

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I'm building a arrangement and will exist having a dedicated 128Gb Adata SSD bulldoze simply for Win 7 64 bit. I will use a hard drive for programs. 128Gb may seem overkill merely for an Os but improve to accept more than than tinkering on the 'just about accept plenty space' situation.

You never know with the size of Windows updates. Try and factor that into your quest for an SSD.

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Apr ix, 2013

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Almost 60 days Win 7 64bit over Transcend 128 Gb SSD - under 50 % full
MS Part
And bunch of apps i use - HD playback , Encoding , Games, Movies
Games, Movies -> goes to 2-d HDD SATA3 500Gb Standart drive ( or may be 2x HDD over RAID 0 )
Adv. - you can Move you lot contour folders to 2-d HDD drive - Downloads even MyDokuments etc.

If you have Desktop + SSD go for 64Gb min and 128 Gb is recommended by me
Kill hybernate - Ctrl. + R - > powercfg /hibernate off
Go for 8Gb DDR3 min. and impale page file - set folio to ZERO
4 Aqueduct Memmory with 16Gb DDR3 - recomendet by me
Take hold of what always SSD XXX Gb you lot similar and forget nigh R/W Mbps or IO FLOPS - even cheaper i is 100x Random R/West improve than Standart HDD - typical 100 μs and standart HDD is x - 12 ms

I tin still accept 50 % for some games on SSD - loading fourth dimension is Mind-BLOWER

I read above solution - mSATA running just some portion of OS over mSATA is not something i personally prefer rather Os over SSD.

In that location you tin see my passmark :
I`thou waiting ATI 8870 to show up
PassMark - SSD

• #15

Ssd prices have gone down a lot my pc has a 1 terabyte hdd and a 128gb ssd. With a 4790k and gtx 970 for $1500

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