The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    How much space does win7 64bit take up on a HD? Office 2010?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by kojack, Dec 2, 2011.

  1. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    1,230
    Messages:
    4,187
    Likes Received:
    1,636
    Trophy Points:
    231
    How much does windows 64 7 take up on a drive? I was going to get a ssd for my timeline, but I may upgrade to the s3 with the 20g ssd and 320 hd...will the 20gig hold my programs? or will it fill up fast...I would be loading win7, full office 2010, turbocad 16, Paint shop pro photo as well a few other things..

    but save all documentation on the 320...
     
    kojack, Dec 2, 2011
    #1
  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

    Reputations:
    7,588
    Messages:
    10,023
    Likes Received:
    1,077
    Trophy Points:
    581
    A clean install of windows 7, will take 10-12GB of space IF you remove the paging file and disable hibernation. Page file and hibernation will by default take the same amount of space as your RAM, if you have 4GB RAM, it'll be 4GB + 4GB.

    My advice, do not get a 20GB SSD, it is too small to even think of installing windows and a few programs without extensive tweaking, i'd get at least a 60Gb drive, 120GB and up ideally.
     
    tijo, Dec 2, 2011
    #2
  3. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    1,230
    Messages:
    4,187
    Likes Received:
    1,636
    Trophy Points:
    231
    I have an intel 320 120 gig SSD ordered. just that the acer s3 with the 20 gb ssd and 320 gd piqued my interest. I think i will keep trucking with my timeline 4810. I save all files on external drive/server just my programs and a few files stored, then i migrate all files to my server or an off machine drive. Right now i have 66gb used. pretty well thats what I will be using, at times it may spike to 80gb but not often....I wish acer thought of that, hell you can barley load windows on a 20gb ssd. an 80 gb ssd and 320 hd would have been killer...
     
    kojack, Dec 3, 2011
    #3
  4. SL2

    SL2 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    829
    Messages:
    1,340
    Likes Received:
    266
    Trophy Points:
    101
    I installed Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit on my laptop before and checked the size.

    7.3 GB was used after installation, excluding pagefile, hibernation, hardlinks. No programs or drivers installed separately.

    Get at least a 60 GB SSD.
     
    SL2, Dec 4, 2011
    #4
  5. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

    Reputations:
    21,580
    Messages:
    35,370
    Likes Received:
    9,877
    Trophy Points:
    931
    60GB SSD is fine for Windows plus Office and basic apps. I have a 96GB and a 120GB and those are perfect size if you want to store some large media files as well as a game or three.
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 5, 2011
    #5
  6. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

    Reputations:
    2,529
    Messages:
    3,107
    Likes Received:
    30
    Trophy Points:
    116
    I got a Crucial M4 64gb SSD for my Atom server (ASRock Ion 330HT), and its plenty of space left on it.
    I also got a Intel 510 120gb SSD on my Clevo P170HMx and its filled with the OS, some games and programs the average joe uses.

    My advice is to get at least 60gb to 120gb on your SSD.

    You could keep the OS on the SSD and install all the programs on the 320gb HDD but that defeats the purpose of an SSD. D;
     
    DEagleson, Dec 6, 2011
    #6