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Small ssd (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 4 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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[–] papalonian 2 points 4 months ago

This is the answer. I've had a 256gb SSD with nothing but Windows on it since 2018. Every time Windows starts to get a little feisty (far too often.. sigh..) I just nuke the drive from orbit and spend an hour reinstalling windows rather than spending a weekend or two shuffling things around to get back to where they need to be.

Only thing that's mildly annoying is most things expect everything to be on the C drive by default and it can be a little annoying navigating programs that don't "remember" the last folder they looked in. But telling the boys that you have to reinstall Windows and then being back on for games the same day, definitely worth it.