With the advent of SSDs becoming more common, but still relatively small in size, it begs the question from me... how big is your C Drive? I wonder how many people do what I do, and install all their apps on C, and not any other drive? I appreciate the logic in installing apps to another drive to keep your boot partition small, but the problem I have with that is that should I need to restore from back-ups after upgrading drives for e.g., I will have to restore 2 drives instead of one. Therefore I install all my apps to C: and only have my other drives for storage of stand-alone files and data. As a result, my C drive is currently has 105GB on it. As I have a 1TB drive as my boot device I see no problem, but upgrading to SSD would necessitate a large investment. Am I alone in this method of disk management? As a result... a poll please. Please input the used space on C:
On my laptop, which is what I'm on currently, I have no choice but to fill up C: with movies, games and other junk as my second partition fills up. I voted for 40-100GB. But on my main rig and in general, I use just over 30GB for C: - it only contains the OS and a few essential apps. All else is on other drives/partitions.
Mine is only 43GB with a new install of win7 and my steam folder (~17GB). I haven't got round to reinstalling many of my other games yet. All my main storage; films, music and pics are on a separate 1TB disk. If I am to get a SSD (hopefully) I would want it to be over 100GB so that I have some headroom for apps and games.
Brand new win7 install + my steam folder = 149Gb and I've got loads more non-steam games yet to install!
Running a 70gb WD Raptor, and have used 12GB. I only install programs on my C disk. Everything else is on a 1tb Samsung f1. No games currently on my pc. A 60gb SSD would suit me fine. Soon as all this firmware mumbo jumbo gets sorted out. Maybe next year I'll make the leap.
same here, on the mark 40GB with a single game, that game being GTA4 where it takes advantage of fast random access of SSD's.
I use C only for windows and programs that need enrties in the windows register to function properly, everything else is on my other partitions. Total space used rounded to 35gb on a 60gb partition.
Sitting somewhere around 100GB on a 160GB drive. I have a 160GB drive and a 300GB drive, the 160 has Win7, the 300 has Vista. I only keep the Vista installation for one program which we've lost the Key for. Steam sits on the 300GB drive though. Most downloads and things are kept on the Network.
Only have the one drive. Did contemplate partitioning but I'd still put all my apps on c: so the results would be the same (although formatting would be much easier)
I have about 100 games installed and I've filled about 240GB althoguh I imagine 50GB or so is either crap I haven't tidied and standalone files.
72gb after installing Windows 7. I have my old Vista install on a second drive that is about 242GB (the Steam folder is approximately 104GB )
I've used around 50GB of a 74GB raptor, that's with all the games I'm currently interested in (usually 2-3), a few GB's of pictures and other assorted documents, and all the usual program files etc.
My system drive (which is D: btw ) uses just shy of 18GB. That's on WinXP, mind you. I expect that figure to double once I install Win7. I try to have as little as possible installed on my system drive. All games and most apps are installed on different partitions, as is all actual data.