[SOLVED] iS 128gb enough for casual use or few light games?

[Lil’bertz]

im planning to buy a cheap <language please> SSD as a boot drive. don't play popular high end games at PC that im gonna put the SSD on (im just gonna revive a slow <again> PC)
is 128gb enough for ms office and some few games like minecraft and dota 2 (planning, not decided yet).
im also planning download more programs like adobe photoshop (or freeware equivalent), and some simple video editing software

 

[LordVile]

I mean when you get into editing videos and such, that takes up a lot of space. I wouldnt recommend anything under 250gb for what you will be doing and even then you may run out faster than you think.

You can get a Samsung 860 evo 250gb for about 60-70$ and its 1 of the best SSDs out for its price.

Windows will take up about 10-20gb on its own. Then if you have a System Paging File that will take up anywhere from 2-15gb of space.

You may want to mod minecraft and those files can start to add up fast.

Video rendering and Adobe, a 10min clip recorded of minecraft at 720p 30fps will be about 400-700mb, then when you render it you may add things to it and get a 1gb video. This adds up very quickly as well. Not to mention other programs you will inevitably get.

250gb is about the minimum, Id recommend a 500gb-1tb HDD as a storage drive for now if you cant afford a larger SSD and use the 250gb for Windows and your main programs and games.

Also have to think once a SSD becomes over half full its starts to drop in performance, which is where buying a better ssd like the 860 will help in the long term.

That’s expensive for a evo O.O got my 1TB model for £110

 

[Jason H.]

They want a cheap drive for an older system, and that drive is likely well beyond what they were planning on spending.

And before spending $60+ on a 250GB 860 Evo, I would spend a similar amount on a 500GB Crucial MX500 with similar performance and reliability, but double the capacity. Or around $75 on the 500GB 860 Evo. Again, we're seeing a case of the lowest capacities of that drive not being all that competitively priced.

Hey nice option there!

Good response I agree!

 

[Jason H.]

That’s expensive for a evo O.O got my 1TB model for £110

Hey yea maybe the price has went up some Im not sure but its a great drive for long term performance.

 

[LordVile]

Hey yea maybe the price has went up some Im not sure but its a great drive for long term performance.

Obvs it’s a Samsung. Need to get a 2TB now for storage though my 1TB and 500GB SSDs are filling up.