Recommended SSD headroom?

[dg27]

I am gearing up to replace my HDD with an SSD. I generally keep no data on my boot drive (just OS files). Running Win 7 Pro 64 bit, my OS and related files use 210 GB. Would a 256 GB SSD be OK or would I be better off with a 512 GB?

 

[Y0GI]

Are you sure about the 210 GB figure? I have Win 7 X64 Pro, MS Office, Firefox, all sorts of utilities and I use 24 GB.

But if you really use that much space, go for a 512 GB because a 256 GB becomes 226 GB when you subtract for over provisioning.

Yogi

 

[USAFRet]

210GB? You have a lot of other stuff in there.

Win 8.1 Pro, Office 2013, Adobe Lightroom, Corel VideoStudio, PaintShop Pro, etc, etc, etc. All applications aside from games.
45.7GB used on a Kingston 128GB drive.

Agreed. 210GB is too close to the edge for comfort.

 

[dg27]

This is what WinDirStat reports:

WD Boot files
Program X86 55.10
Users 42.20
Files 42.00
Windows 40.70
ProgramData 13.00
Unknown 8.00
Program files 7.40
Misc (est) 1.00
total 209.40


I have two Outlook accounts and the .pst files are 25 GB.I use Creative Suite extensively and because there are different tools that are better in different versions, I have CS 4, 5 & 6 installed: that's 17 GB right there, plus Pro Tools, a lot of other audio and video software.

Thanks for confirming that 512 is a safer bet.