I have a Dell Laptop with a Hard Drive of 283 GB
I am toying with going for a Solid State Drive and have been looking at
500GBI realise though that I am only using 125GB but old advice was to keep to about 60% of total capacity (I think)
If I go for a SDD do I need spare space? Should I go for a 500GB or will a cheaper 250GB be adequate?
I don't atnicipate anything massive on the Laptop and I always have a 1TB external. I am really after advice on performance benefits of having spare space.
Without knowing how you use a laptop, no one can tell.
None really.
what you need on the SSD is te OS/programs. Data is never an issue really speed wise.
Simple "Office" type use, browsing and Emails.
The current drive is reported as 320GB but Windows says 125 used and 159 free
You need space for swapfiling - a few G should be enough for that - plus space for whatever data you're going to acquire during the life of the sdd. We of course have no way to know what quantity that is.
NT
Ive got 60GB SSD in my lappy. everytung else is either on my server or on a USB drive
Lappy is absolutely 'if it gets stolen I dont care' stuff.
240 GB should be fine.
Most lappies seem to come with 1GB HDD these days and use barely 12%.
Cheers
Dave R
If it is a reasonably modern laptop and you can afford the bigger SSD I would probably say go for it, so that you have plenty of space for Windows 11 :-)
But otherwise I do agree with TNP and the others, it does depend how you use it and what other hardware you use.
A Windows update needs lots of room.
With NTFS partitions there was some argument for not filling them more than 80% full. The work fine, but you get a slight performance hit due to free space fragmentation.
I would go with the cheaper 250GB since there is significantly less impact from fragmentation anyway.
My Windows 10 SSD C: is 38GB used out of 88GB. That's Windows, browsers, Libreoffice and a few small applications.
(Other partitions are 11 GB recovery image and the rest is data).
I was a cheapskate and got a 128 GB SSD.
It's *lovely* not having a HDD grunting away all the time.
Owain
That was never sensible 'advice'.
No.
250GB is fine if you only use 125GB.There are none with that much free space.
I think you meant TB, not GB
I paid good money for 1GB. But not recently.
If present usage is any guide then there will still be half the disk as free empty space. But if you take up video editing or building 6 men chess tablebases tomorrow then you will probably need the bigger disk.
I'd say it depends a bit on how long you expect to keep the PC for and whether you expect to do anything on it involving big data.
It can be if you make very large numbers of random small reads (or writes) to huge database files (as happens to chess endgames). Losing the seek time for spinning rust makes a huge performance improvement.
Be sure to optimise the operating system afterwards for a solid state disk. They do not benefit from being defragged at all.
The usual advice IME is to try not to goe beyond about 90% full as the file system struggles to remain efficient (nothing to to with the drive as such).
250 will be fine.
I recommend the Plextors - I have had several (including 2 M2 SATA modules in the laptop I am typing this on) and they've all been very reliable. Fast too.
If you consider Samsungs, read this first and do some research:
Last week I found a 256MB memory stick from an old Sony camera at the back of a drawer. A quick search of my inbox showed that it was £32 from Amazon in 2005.
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I made an approx calculation that if the plastic molecules could be present or missing to indicate 0 or 1, a CD could hold about 5 zettabytes of data. Today's massive data storage is going to seem funny in the future.
NT
....and we don't know how it works or how it could be made! Mysterious stuff.
Yep - finger trouble.
nt or missing to indicate 0 or 1, a CD could hold about 5 zettabytes of dat a.
If that is the case then how much data can a whole ocean of plastic hold :- D
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