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Small ssd (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 8 months ago by Lime66 to c/pcmasterrace

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I finished my first build a few months ago, put fedora workstation on it, everything's been great so far, but there are a few games I have and love which don't work, or are incredibly unstable. so I'm looking for a small, let's say 256gb SSD, to dual boot with windows for those games as well as creative work with lightroom.

My current drive has enough storage for a windows dual boot on its own, but I do not want windows to hide the linux partition or delete it completely.

So my questions are:

Should I get a larger SSD than 256gb?
what would be a good drive at that size?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That depends what games you plan to boot up. Are they the 100+GB Legendary Edition types with all the DLCs, or are they <15GB indies? If you think it could be the former now or in the future, I wouldn't get less than 512GB (also, keep in mind that games are only getting bigger). You'll run out of storage on the 256 faster than you think, either way, and if you're trying to save money, there's usually deep discounts around Christmas.

I always recommend Crucial drives, as they have been solid choices for me (I have an older MX100 that's still going strong 10 years later). What kind of interface do you have? SATA? NVME?

[–] Shady_Shiroe 3 points 8 months ago

Plus windows sometimes decides 100gb ain't enough for the operation system