Advice needed as I upgrade my laptop

[RickMac]

Hi everyone and happy fourth of July. I have received an intel X25-V sata SSD drive (40GB) and I am considering using it as a boot drive only in my Inspiron 1720 that has room for two hard drives. My concern is whether or not this drive is big enough for my programs. My computer indicates that my programs are using 3.06 GB of space but I know there is something that I am not seeing here. I would appreciate any help or advice you might be able to give ....Thanks in advance Rick

[Kyotie]

Get a terabyte drive, you will need it.

[RickMac]

Hey John, I have a couple of those but their external drives and you definitely need those for backing things up.

[aayaros]

Rick,
SSD drives are great...I've seen some people achive less than 6 second boot times. Not knowing what O/S you are using, i would check the WEB site to see what the system requirements are. For me, I have Windows 7. As you mentioned there is more than just programs. I run the bare minimums on the "C:" drive and everything else goes out to the "D:" Drive. On C: there is Program Files, ProgramData, and Windows...plus a few other directories that make up approx 25GB. Everything else is on "D:" for easy backup.
So depending on the amount of installed software, what you want to do is easily done if properly managed.

[RickMac]

Andrew thanks for your input. Right now I'm running Vista and with all my other programs I'm starting to think I need to go with an 80gb drive as a minimum to be on the safe side. I'd rather have a little room to grow in my "c:" drive but I don't want to load it up. I'll keep looking into this and make a decision soon. Thanks again...Rick