Vaio Z Usable Space when unboxed?

I'm debating whether to go for a 128GB or 256GB SSD config for the Z13 CTO. How much actual usable space is available to the user after you opened it. In other words, how much is taken by Windows 7 64-bit (I'm guessing 20-25GB), the preloaded Office 2010 Starter (which takes up the same size as the whole suite??), Vaio bloatware (may do fresh start anyway) formatting, recovery partition, etc etc etc.

 

The 128'000'000'000 byte SSD has a total capacity of 119.2 GB (59.6 GB per drive).

Out of the box, only 83~ GB will be free out of 108. The hidden partition is 12 GB. The rest is paging file (4 GB), hibernation file (4 GB), Windows 7 and software/bloatware (17 GB).

More info: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/523529-how-much-space-did-you-get-your-128gb-ssd.html

I would highly recommend the 256 GB SSD unless you have very lenient storage requirements.

 

You mentioned in your other post thatthe recovery partition is 8GB while you say it is 12GB in this post.

Also, Windows 7 64-bit alone takes at least 20GB according to Microsoft, though you mention Windows 7 and bloatware to be only 17GB?

Just a little confused on your numbers.

 

Some operating systems can be run read-only -- Windows is not one of them.

Windows requires more space than the actual storage space. There are paging files, temporary files, install space (when it needs to install a Tuesday patch, it must hold a copy of it while installing), caching, preload files, space for shadow copies, and much more. All makes the minimal usable size larger than what shows up as used in a disk usage tool.

 

Read again, it wasn't me in the other post saying it's 8 GB, it was beaups. I think it's closer to 12.

I don't think Microsoft says Windows 7 takes up at least 20 GB, I think they say that's the minimum hard-drive capacity requirement. I remember I had Windows 7 32-bit RC installed on a netbook with 8 GB SSD (it just barely fit with <1 GB left).

Anyway, these numbers approximate.

 

Mine was 8GB. I didn't have the lightroom bundle on my Z112. Perhaps those with the adobe bundle or other options had a bigger recovery partition.

The partitions are smaller because they contain compressed files (WIM images). It's not a working install on the recovery partition, it's more similar to a Windows installation disc.

 

In any case...

Just get the 256 and be done with it.

 

lol, now I am double guessing myself

 

^I was fine with my 128gb. And, if you run short and are handy, you can replace the SSD (s).

I'm now (finally) rocking 640GB of SSD's in my Z

 

meh, I was fine with less than 60gb used on my SSD drive for over a year (still have over 100gb free on my 160gb SSD), I just didn't put any large media files on it, I had desktops and external drives for that. Admittedly, before switching to SSD, I had a large HDD filled to the brim but with limited write cycles and performance issues with SSDs I've learnt otherwise