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How big is Windows 7?
On 03/11/2014 09:55 AM, BillW50 wrote:
On 3/11/2014 8:36 AM, philo wrote: The only SSD I have is one of those mini's. It performs terribly. Yes those are pretty slow. Although my other Samsung PM830 mSATA SSDs can operate at the industry´s highest sequential read and write speeds of 500MB/s and of 260MB/s respectively, under optimum conditions. Maybe they have faster ones today as these are just over a year old. Because it's on a Dell-mini that I almost never use, I did something I've been told not to do...and that was to defrag the drive. It really did help. Since it may be years before I'd defrag the drive again I am not worrying about wearing the drive out. |
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How big is Windows 7?
On 3/11/2014 9:58 AM, philo wrote:
On 03/11/2014 09:55 AM, BillW50 wrote: On 3/11/2014 8:36 AM, philo wrote: The only SSD I have is one of those mini's. It performs terribly. Yes those are pretty slow. Although my other Samsung PM830 mSATA SSDs can operate at the industry´s highest sequential read and write speeds of 500MB/s and of 260MB/s respectively, under optimum conditions. Maybe they have faster ones today as these are just over a year old. Because it's on a Dell-mini that I almost never use, I did something I've been told not to do...and that was to defrag the drive. It really did help. Yes I recall you mentioning this before. And that reminded me of this problem with some SSDs. And defragging could have sped the writes up significantly. Why Solid-State Drives Slow Down As You Fill Them Up http://www.howtogeek.com/165542/why-...-fill-them-up/ Since it may be years before I'd defrag the drive again I am not worrying about wearing the drive out. It is funny since I monitored all writes to one EeePC and reduced things like pagefile, hibernation, turning off updating the last accessed time stamping, etc. And I got the average per day down to about 400MB worth of writes. Then I figured out how long I could operate it before wearing it out. And it turned out to be something like 4000 years. So I frankly don't worry about it anymore either. LOL -- Bill Dell Latitude Slate Tablet 128GB SSD ('12 era) - Thunderbird v24.3.0 Intel Atom Z670 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Pro |
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John wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:26:54 -0400, wrote: ps: what the hell does Windows need with eighteen *thousand* folders? What is it *doing* with them all? And it's not really a wonder that the Registry is so godsdamned bloated all the time. It must be a nightmare just keeping track of all that crap. My Win7 ZPro registry and all software installed on the C:\Drive is 8MB. Hardly bloated as a percentage of an 64 GB disk with 35 GB total in use. -- ....winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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BillW50 wrote:
And I got the average per day down to about 400MB worth of writes. Then I figured out how long I could operate it before wearing it out. And it turned out to be something like 4000 years. So I frankly don't worry about it anymore either. LOL At that rate it's possible your descendants could still be using it! g http://1drv.ms/1fpdxoX -- ....winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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=?UTF-8?B?Ii4uLndpbnN0b27igKsi?= writes: wrote: I'm thinking of having a new system built. If I do, I'd like to have my C drive be a solid state drive, which of course will hold my Windows 7 operating system (I have no interest in Windows 8). My question is how big is Windows 7 so I know how big a solid state drive to go with? Thanks. Depends whether you mean just Win7, or as little extra as you can keep a lid on, or Win7 plus other software, or Win7 plus software plus data. I tend to try to keep my OS and software on one partition/drive and my data on other(s). I'd probably allow about 50G for OS plus software but no data, and expect that to last me quite a few years, up to when I might be beginning to think about the next PC. I've used a variety of different size partitions for Windows 7 with all software installed on the same drive (60, 80, 100, 120)...I have never, ever used more than 40GB...my upper limit hovers around 32-35GB. Note: I do store all data (data files, drivers, pics, music, installation programs, setup, etc) on a entirely separate disk in their respective folder (iTunes, Pictures, Media, Programs, Drivers, Documents, Setup, Misc). Currently these total about 45GB with iTunes and Pictures comprising more than 70%) When you say you keep drivers on the second drive, do you mean just the installers for them (for want of a better word) - i. e. the files you might download from manufacturers' websites - or do you mean the actual files that Windows is using on a continuous basis? (If the latter, how do you tell W7 to do that?) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf He's as down to earth as a man dressed as a woman can ever be. (Grayson Perry, described in Radio Times 12-18 October 2013) |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , =?UTF-8?B?Ii4uLndpbnN0b27igKsi?= writes: wrote: I'm thinking of having a new system built. If I do, I'd like to have my C drive be a solid state drive, which of course will hold my Windows 7 operating system (I have no interest in Windows 8). My question is how big is Windows 7 so I know how big a solid state drive to go with? Thanks. Depends whether you mean just Win7, or as little extra as you can keep a lid on, or Win7 plus other software, or Win7 plus software plus data. I tend to try to keep my OS and software on one partition/drive and my data on other(s). I'd probably allow about 50G for OS plus software but no data, and expect that to last me quite a few years, up to when I might be beginning to think about the next PC. I've used a variety of different size partitions for Windows 7 with all software installed on the same drive (60, 80, 100, 120)...I have never, ever used more than 40GB...my upper limit hovers around 32-35GB. Note: I do store all data (data files, drivers, pics, music, installation programs, setup, etc) on a entirely separate disk in their respective folder (iTunes, Pictures, Media, Programs, Drivers, Documents, Setup, Misc). Currently these total about 45GB with iTunes and Pictures comprising more than 70%) When you say you keep drivers on the second drive, do you mean just the installers for them (for want of a better word) - i. e. the files you might download from manufacturers' websites - or do you mean the actual files that Windows is using on a continuous basis? (If the latter, how do you tell W7 to do that?) Downloaded (and saved) drivers not the one's Windows uses and stores. -- ....winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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