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I lived with a 60GB SSD for a while, it's doable, but it is does take work and is very frustrating. Given the tiny price difference at the moment between 60 & 120GB SSDs, it's really worthwhile going to a 120 drive if you possibly can.

The issue is that every update you install accumulates space, and many programs like Chrome and many others tend to accumulate a whole bunch of space on your system drive. You can track down what's eating your space and Google how to free it up, it's all doable, but it takes time and maintenance.

Remember that you really want at least 15-20% free on your SSD at any time, so it is a bit of pain.

Short answer... Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it.
 
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120GB minimum.
60/64 is right on the edge of too small. You'll be spending more time than needed to manage the free space.



No, it's not. It will initially install. Then you start running the updates. I recently redid my daughters laptop with Win 7 Home Premium. After the updates, it was right at 40GB.
A small load of utilities (~1GB), and MS Office (~3GB) and it was 45GB.
 
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Ahh sorry i read it as windows 8, for me it was right at 27.3 GB
 
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And "27.3 GB" is right at the total usable space for a 32GB SSD. You need to leave some free space for TRIM, and then the next monthly update.....poof. Out of space.
Add in the minimal price differences...there is no reason to get anything less than a 120GB. Smaller than that, and having an SSD is mostly useless.
You want enough space to install applications in addition to the OS.
 
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Was using a crucial m4 64gb with a 2tb spinner for 3 years. Absolutely no problems whatsoever.

Only w7, office and other essentials such as chrome, acrobat, vlc went onto the ssd. Moved the downloads folder of chrome over to the spinner. With hibernate and system restore disable, I was left with around 25gb for the drive to TRIM itself efficiently.

All games went onto the spinner.

So I enjoyed great startups and a responsive com with adequate storage for games and such. Unless you really need short loading times, loading games on ssd wont affect performance.

That being said, back then, I initially had bf3 loaded on my ssd. I got so used to the 5 second loading times that the first time I loaded a map on after reinstalling it on my spinner, I thought the game had hanged. So yea..
 
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3 years ago, that was a viable choice. With today's prices, not so much.
For instance, the 850 EVO doesn't even come in a 64GB size. The 120GB is $65 from Amazon. A Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB (ewww) is $57 from Newegg. +$8 for twice the space.
 
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Yea absolutely. Back then I paid over 1buck per gb. Now things are much cheaper. Not saying you should buy a 64gb ssd now, just if you have one lying around it can be feasibly used as an OS drive with room to spare
 
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