Plan to get a laptop with SSD 256 GB with Win 10 home basic.

Worry that may be too tight for normal use (just word processing, excel etc with limited games).

Appreciate feedback from those who are using SSD 256 GB Win 10 now.

Thanks.

I am running Windows 10 LTSB version (without stupid apps, one drive etc hence much smaller size)

But I still wouldn't put all files in SSD, get a hard-disk to store media files, SSD for things need to load like OS, games, applications.

Please note that SSD speed will be slower if 80% full.

it will be sufficient with quite a few games.

Noted and thanks.

Thanks.

how to get it

im using win10 pro right now

can downgrade?

Running Windows 10 pro (ehem copy...) with a 120GB SSD (Check my Sig), no prob.

Full MS office 2013, and some other small programs.

25++ GB remaining.


What you should be worried is that IS the remaining 120++GB enough for games (^-^)

This post has been edited by BelaCHAN: Apr 24 2018, 08:59 PM

Surprising infor. Ha.

I am using Win 10 on my desktop (1 TB HHD). I think with Win 10 home basic it was taking up about 160 GB when it was new. Now used space is about 232 GB (did a lot of cleaning the other day).

So, glad to hear you can still run with 120 GB SSD and Win pro!

So going for 256 GB SSD! Ha.

If you use it purely as work and light gaming machine, then it will be more than enough space.

If you are worried about performance, my trusty Spectre laptop of 3yrs with 256GB SSD slightly less than half storage space used; no issues in terms of speed at all. Still blazing performance and boot time is as fast as it has ever been

Noted. Many thanks!

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB, it's not downgrade at all.

Things I like are
-no app store
-no One Drive
-start interface are not tiles crap thing
-don't need to sign in Microsoft account
-smaller size
-lower CPU and ram usage (good for long term as wouldn't meet cpu bottleneck as soon as regular version)
-only rolls out major important update


I got mine from pir@teb@y, but downloaded wrong language pack, changed system language later

Been using 128gb since 2013-14 and filled with Photoshop, illustrator, premiere pro, office and many more. Still enough to keep all the files in the main ssd. Although I move some files to other drives because those drives sync with my cloud storage.

Also only until recently, I had to move my overwatch game because needed the extra space. And I installed my overwatch on my SSD pretty much around the time it was released.

So don't worry about the storage. For normal files it's more than enough. Although do invest in a hdd for bigger files like music and videos just in case

Thanks.

Time for me to look for an external HDD too. Ha.

yes sufficient. unless u are planning to download and play those ahem2 AAA titles.

i have illegear z5 and zenbook, both with 256gb configuration.

Noted and thanks.

It depends what you put on the drive, really.
I don't put user files on C drive, I don't install most stuff inside C drive... This makes system recovery easy without worry about loosing data.
Also minimize the amount of space required for system image backup, the smaller the amount of stuff on C the better.
Since W10 is a "service" which constantly require update, it make sense to NOT store stuff on C driver, and make proper system image backup.
Strongly recommend anyone to do so; minimize the amount of headache and complaints on the internet later. If Windows died due to broken update, only takes 3 minutes to restore.
Windows already have it's own image backup function but it's not compressed, personally recommend AOMei Backupper (freeware).

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Apr 30 2018, 07:11 AM

Thanks.

Thought I read that Win10 alone will take up some 100GB space.

My Dell desktop failed some 2 yrs ago due to motherboard issue. Decided to get a new Dell desktop. Getting all the programs & files in the new PC was a nightmare I do not wish to go through again. Thus now doing 2-4 weekly backup of C drive.

Very subjective..

right it's a better practice to always split data from os/applications physically. a lot of time can be saved just by doing this. usually this is done by a minimal 2-drive setup: one is for os (ssd), another one is for data (hdd).

if you have the habit to store files in Documents folder only in windows-based os, at least move those default locations to another physical drive. make backups for data and system images at regular basis.

Thanks.