sotosev Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 Is it necessary to have both SSD and HDD in a desktop PC or I can run an SSD alone! I know that I ll have less capacity. System specs below Case - Antec Three Hundred PSU - Corsair AX750watt Board - MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CPU - Intel i5 6600K 3900MHz Cooler - CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus Memory - Kingston HYPERX 16G DDR4 2400Mhz CL15 Graphics - MSI GEFORCE GTX 980 GAMING 4G SSD - Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 NVMe Monitor - Philips 277E 27" 1920x1080 60Hz OS - Windows 10 Home 64bit Flight Controllers - Thrustmaster HOTAS WARTHOG, Saitek COMBAT RUDDER PEDALS, TrackIR 4, Track Clip Pro [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
beers Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 Yes, completely possible to run a Windows machine with only SSD. It's a question of the amount of money you are willing to invest in your system. I have a 55gb SSD that is my boot drive, a few apps (including MS Office) and DCS (A-10 and BS), and I am left with 14gb free on that drive. If you need more space then you have two options; invest more money in a bigger SSD or use HDD in addition to the SSD. 2600K @ 4.2GHz, MSI P67A-GD55, 16GB G.Skill @2133 , GTX 970, Rift, SSD boot & DCS drive [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Username455 Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 Hey beers, did you have to do any tweaks to windows or anything to get it to fit on your SSD? That is great to hear that all those programs fit on a 55gb ssd with room to spare since I keep reading 64gb ssd are too small! I would love an SSD for a boot/DCS drive, but I can't see myself paying for more than 64gb. System: i7 920 @3.8ghz; GTX 560ti 448; 6gb DDR3 1600 ram; 750gb HDD; 750w PSU; Win7 64bit; x52 Pro; TrackIR 5
sotosev Posted December 11, 2011 Author Posted December 11, 2011 Yes, completely possible to run a Windows machine with only SSD. It's a question of the amount of money you are willing to invest in your system. I have a 55gb SSD that is my boot drive, a few apps (including MS Office) and DCS (A-10 and BS), and I am left with 14gb free on that drive. If you need more space then you have two options; invest more money in a bigger SSD or use HDD in addition to the SSD. My question is technical, I mean if I had only one SSD could I start windows without a HDD and only an SSD System specs below Case - Antec Three Hundred PSU - Corsair AX750watt Board - MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CPU - Intel i5 6600K 3900MHz Cooler - CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus Memory - Kingston HYPERX 16G DDR4 2400Mhz CL15 Graphics - MSI GEFORCE GTX 980 GAMING 4G SSD - Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 NVMe Monitor - Philips 277E 27" 1920x1080 60Hz OS - Windows 10 Home 64bit Flight Controllers - Thrustmaster HOTAS WARTHOG, Saitek COMBAT RUDDER PEDALS, TrackIR 4, Track Clip Pro [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
spikenet Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 If you want to get the most life out of your SSD you might want to do a bit of research and read something like this If you have lots of ram you could get away with running a single SSD but I dont know why you wouldnt run a storage HDD for apps and games plus pagefile and other temporary stuff you dont want going onto your SSD.
cichlidfan Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) My question is technical, I mean if I had only one SSD could I start windows without a HDD and only an SSD To answer your question. There is no fundamental difference to the OS or your computer if your 'disk' drive is mechanical or not. That is the difference. The computer sees a hard disk plugged into a SATA port. It has no real idea of what is in the little box. 60GB is 60GB regardless if it on an SSD or a mechanical hard disk. If it has enough space to run windows then it works. EDIT: Currently I have my OS and a few apps on my SSD, and everything else installed on a standard disk drive. If I were to unhook the regular HDD then the system wouold boot and run just fine. I would have some applications that would not run (icons that were dead) and a few other minor library issues but other than those things I would see no difference. Edited December 11, 2011 by cichlidfan ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
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