You are reporting the following post: Windows 7 on Mac. The number, or size, of printers/scanners plays no part in the choice of partition size. You could run both of them off a 40GB HD.
240GB SSD 3 x OS's 80GB for the Windows OS and Windows applications 50GB each for the other two Leaving 20GB for a game. And leaving sufficient free space for TRIM to do its thing. Can games count as applications? For the 'leave 20GB' should I create another partition in to that?
And that adds up to 200GB, I need it to add up to 220GB so if it does involve creating another partition can I make that 40GB (more games; not that I intend to use all of that space because like we both agree, I need at least 20% free but I think that's still included in a partition not just left out in the open or it goes to waste). A Windows install is not just what lives in C:/Windows/ /AppData/, /Users/, /Temp/, etc, etc, etc. A carefully managed Windows 10 32bit system, with a teeny bit of RAM, with almost no applications installed and little use.can work in a 32GB drive. For instance a low end Asus Transformer.
32GB drive, but a 64GB SD where actual data lives. A system that is actually used day to day? 80GB might work.
For you.wouldn't work for me. My current C drive is approx 105GB. Of course, 6GB of that is taken up by the pending Win 10 Upgrade. A Windows install is not just what lives in C:/Windows/ /AppData/, /Users/, /Temp/, etc, etc, etc. A carefully managed Windows 10 32bit system, with a teeny bit of RAM, with almost no applications installed and little use.can work in a 32GB drive. For instance a low end Asus Transformer. 32GB drive, but a 64GB SD where actual data lives.
A system that is actually used day to day? 80GB might work.
For you.wouldn't work for me. My current C drive is approx 105GB.
Of course, 6GB of that is taken up by the pending Win 10 Upgrade. Okay wait so what else is there to a Windows install then? Because I'm looking at it in WinDirStat and actually yeah, it does seem to be just what lives in Users (Appdata is part of Users, or at least on my laptop), Windows, & Pagefile/Hiberfil. A Windows install is not just what lives in C:/Windows/ /AppData/, /Users/, /Temp/, etc, etc, etc.
A carefully managed Windows 10 32bit system, with a teeny bit of RAM, with almost no applications installed and little use.can work in a 32GB drive. For instance a low end Asus Transformer. 32GB drive, but a 64GB SD where actual data lives. A system that is actually used day to day? 80GB might work.
For you.wouldn't work for me. My current C drive is approx 105GB. Of course, 6GB of that is taken up by the pending Win 10 Upgrade.
Okay wait so what else is there to a Windows install then? Because I'm looking at it in WinDirStat and actually yeah, it does seem to be just what lives in Users (Appdata is part of Users, or at least on my laptop), Windows, & Pagefile/Hiberfil. I have a 2 month old Asus Transformer, with a 32GB drive. The OS and a very few tiny applications installed. Win 10 32bit, 2GB RAM.It is right in the edge of being unusable.
And I have the Doc/Download/Music/etc directed to the 64GB SD card that plugs in the side. If all it has was the 32GB drive.I'd be screwed. 3 year old Win 8.1 Pro, 16GB RAM, minimal page file, no hibernation file, all applications besides games.Approx 90GB used. This is discounting the space that the pending Win 10 Upgrade takes.
All I'm saying is.what do you want to use that space for? You can squeeze a brand new Win 10 install, with no applications, into a 32GB space. If you want space that the OS can actually make use of.you want more.
A Windows install is not just what lives in C:/Windows/ /AppData/, /Users/, /Temp/, etc, etc, etc. A carefully managed Windows 10 32bit system, with a teeny bit of RAM, with almost no applications installed and little use.can work in a 32GB drive. For instance a low end Asus Transformer. 32GB drive, but a 64GB SD where actual data lives.
A system that is actually used day to day? 80GB might work.
For you.wouldn't work for me. My current C drive is approx 105GB. Of course, 6GB of that is taken up by the pending Win 10 Upgrade. Okay wait so what else is there to a Windows install then? Because I'm looking at it in WinDirStat and actually yeah, it does seem to be just what lives in Users (Appdata is part of Users, or at least on my laptop), Windows, & Pagefile/Hiberfil. I have a 2 month old Asus Transformer, with a 32GB drive.
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The OS and a very few tiny applications installed. Win 10 32bit, 2GB RAM.It is right in the edge of being unusable. And I have the Doc/Download/Music/etc directed to the 64GB SD card that plugs in the side. If all it has was the 32GB drive.I'd be screwed. 3 year old Win 8.1 Pro, 16GB RAM, minimal page file, no hibernation file, all applications besides games.Approx 90GB used. This is discounting the space that the pending Win 10 Upgrade takes. All I'm saying is.what do you want to use that space for?
You can squeeze a brand new Win 10 install, with no applications, into a 32GB space. If you want space that the OS can actually make use of.you want more. How many applications is 'All applications' and how minimal is the 'minimal page file'? (I don't mean these questions to sound sarcastic by the way, they are serious questions and I'm glad you are responding) Again all I want (NOT documents, etc) is the Windows OS's partition but stable.
I don't mean shrinking anything but I certainly don't mean putting all my apps on there too though. What I mean is having my OS, the way I'd normally run it, minus the programs and stuff because I'm putting that on my 3 TB HDD. I have plenty of space for programs but wanted to put my OSs on the 240GB SSD.
1) If you could get it in 32GB, judging by my pagefile that'd be bigger and a 64bit OS shouldn't it still be able to fit into 80GB? (And I don't mean with everything shrunk down I mean comfortably) 2) I guess it depends on how big your page file and the size of your applications together are. On my main PC, page file of 1GB MIN/MAX. It has always been thus.
No hibernation file. OS and Applications in that 90GB? MS Office, Adobe Lightroom, Corel VideoStudio, Paintshop Pro, A bunch of other utilities. Now.could I have installed those things elsewhere? Thereby giving up a LOT of the benefit of having an SSD. But.for the bare install of the OS (all 64bit), and after all current updates are run: Win 7 SP1 - 40-45GB Win 8.1 - 35GB Win 10 - 25GB All carefully managed for space, and no applications installed. The question is.what do you want to use this OS and drive for?
Given a 240GB drive.80GB (as you mentioned), would be the smallest for a current Windows OS. Can you do it in a bit smaller? If you want to toss away most of the benefit of an SSD, and if you want to spend a lot of time managing that space, instead of using the device. On my main PC, page file of 1GB MIN/MAX.
It has always been thus. No hibernation file. OS and Applications in that 90GB? MS Office, Adobe Lightroom, Corel VideoStudio, Paintshop Pro, A bunch of other utilities. Now.could I have installed those things elsewhere? Thereby giving up a LOT of the benefit of having an SSD. But.for the bare install of the OS (all 64bit), and after all current updates are run: Win 7 SP1 - 40-45GB Win 8.1 - 35GB Win 10 - 25GB All carefully managed for space, and no applications installed.
The question is.what do you want to use this OS and drive for? Given a 240GB drive.80GB (as you mentioned), would be the smallest for a current Windows OS. Can you do it in a bit smaller? If you want to toss away most of the benefit of an SSD, and if you want to spend a lot of time managing that space, instead of using the device. I'm not saying to do any smaller than 80 (However I'm still kind of confused why you mention 80 is minimum/SMALLEST when you said your Windows 8.1 is at 90GB and that is WITH programs and 3 years of use; I would think it should be 80 recommended then) My plans for the drive have been mentioned. 3 OSs and Skyrim. Planning it out I would say 30GB minimum for OSX (a fresh install of OSX is about 15 GB) 80GB (Will this be enough or do I need more?
I need a straight answer but it looks like it will be enough) for Windows 8 30GB for Arch Linux 80 GB for Storage/Games (NOT many)/Programs ( 20GB of that^ will be empty space so that I don't use 80% of the SSD's space). ^^Feel free to adjust that how you would to fit everything. And actually please do.
I know you said you wouldn't do this on this SSD but frankly I'm not you and having your input is helpful and I do think it is certainly doable just fine.
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