Is a 64GB SSH big enough?

I know this depends allot on how I would use my X300..

BACKGROUND INFO...

I'll order with Office small business and a few plug-ins & firewall/anti virus software.

No games.

Very few pictures & videos (if any).

A few saved documents but not many.

This does not replace my desktop computer which has all the video & music files and tons of HD space.

My wife will use this for work when she's at home. She logs onto a remote server and all her data is saved remotely.

This will be used for web-surfing, DVD movies, e-mail & office applications while we are out of town or when my wife is working at home.

I've read from reviews that the 64GB HD will suffice in most typical business applications.

After office and vista small business is installed I think I'll have about 45GB left over.

Based on the above, do you think this will suffice? I'm a little nervous that we could run out of room.

Thanks

 

From the use you describe above 45Gb should be a nice amount of harddrive space left for your use. Really the games, movies, pictures, music are the things that take up the space, as you indicate. Try to think about any other potential things that might take up space, large email attachments perhaps?

 

I would generally agree. Although you are going to have to perform some thorough house cleaning to get Vista down to 15GB. A 64GB SSD, will yield only about 60GB once formatted. The base install on my x200 (Vista Business) was close to 30GB, plus a 10GB recovery partiton. If you clear off the recovery partition, turn off system restore, eliminate any extra Lenovo recovery install items (about 7 GB on my C drive), turn off hibernate, reduce swap file size, and otherwise perform insane tweaking, a 15GB Vista install may be possible.

Vista is just inherently bloated and it makes life hard on that small of a disk. 30GB remaining after all your apps is installed is more likely. You might want to consider XP due to its much lower footprint (although Vista is not without its advantages). You will probably still be okay, but it might be a bit tighter than you think once you get your applications on there. As long as you don't store media files and games on the SSD, you can probably get by. I would recommend that you get a big (16GB+) SDHC card for media storage, but alas the x300 does not have a card reader for some reason.

 

It might be enough for your daily work, but you never know what you would need after a while, and I'm sure you won't be very happy when you'll realize you need couple of more GB..

Personally I'm waiting for Intel X25-M to get a little cheaper at least It's performance is impressive. And also it has 80GB, that should be enough for daily work for sure...

For movies, music, pictures I would use something external, where is a lot of space, secure (raid) and cheap

 

Yes it is enough for what you described. I have office 2007, acrobat professional, antivirus, video playback software, ftp software, etc...and I have about 30gigs left on my default partition on my 64g SSD.

You can always have a flash drive, Sd card...etc. In this day it is really easy to move data around so the limited space shouldn't be a problem even if you need to temporarily store a few gigs for something here and there (you can always move it!).

 

Personally, I think 64GB is fine for laptop, specifically for the OS and applications.

For media and other files, consider supplementing the SSD with a 32GB flash card. If you need even more space, you could always pick up a WD passport, which are small and plug into your USB drive with no additional power requirements.

 

This is reasurring.

I spoke to a Lenovo rep a few minutes ago and asked if the 128GB SSD (avalible on the X301) could be installed in place of the 64GB and he said it could. I really doubt that I would ever go that route. If it did, it would be in a couple of years when SSD's are dirt cheap.

Based on what I'm hearing, after I load Office SB & Visa SB and some smaller app's I'll still have about 30Gig's left over. I think this would be plenty for our needs.

BTW, the rep thought that the X300 will be "dropped" soon, he said in a few weeks or so. Who knows if this guy knows what he's talking about. He said the X301 will replace the X300, thus the BIG discounts on the X300 right now.

 

Just to reiterate the x300/x301 does NOT have a card reader. You could use a large USB drive, but this is hardly as elegant as a SDHC card. This fact, combined with the lower price point, better battery life, docking option, and 54mm express card slot caused me to choose the x200 over the x300 (I don't need a DVD drive too often and I hate touchpads).

 

Music, videos do take a lot of space but even though I probably wouldn't be storing much of these on my laptop I'd still go for something more than 64GB as I plan to run virtual machines. About 4-6GB for XP/2003 Server and 15-20GB for Vista/2008 Server should be fine as long as you don't store documents within virtual machines and don't install several GB application suites. Add couple of Linux VM's, two several GB system partitions for dual boot and suddenly the partition for your documents gets rather small...

My thought exactly, but make that X200s, 1440x900 is the way to go...

 

Agreed! I opted to go with the X200s over the X200 for this exact reason.

My current machine is a T61 with a 64GB SSD and space was an issue until I sprang for a 16GB SD card. Now all my music lives on the SD card and I have plenty of room on the SSD. In fact, I'm thinking about putting the SSD from the T61 into the X200s (which was ordered with a 160GB drive for that reason).