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Solve : Windows 10 64-bit Home on 40GB SSD?

Answer» <html><body><p>Just sharing this here in case anyone has an older computer with say just a 40GB Hard Drive or 40GB SSD in it and was wondering how Windows 10 64-bit fits within the 40GB of space.<br/><br/>First of all, a clean build of Windows 10 64-bit Home with no updates, no extra software or drivers left  [ 22.2GB free of 36.6GB ]  ( Corsair F40 - 40GB SSD )<br/><br/>After all updates and latest Firefox 64.0.2 browser added it now has  [ 17.3GB free of 36.6GB ].<br/><br/>One might question ... why not just install a larger drive into the system vs bothering using a small limited capacity 40GB drive?<br/><br/><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/well-734398" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WELL">WELL</a> the user of this computer just uses it as a computer for web surfing and e-mail, so no games beyond that of browser flash based games that dont require any installations and they dont run any large software packages, so the 40GB SSD works out fine for this users needs and it is <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/still-653256" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about STILL">STILL</a> a very fast drive.  <br/><br/>One thing to consider though is that if your computer has a 40GB Hard Drive its not going to perform as well as a 40GB Solid State Drive. And its not just the simple fact that SSD drives are faster than HDD's. The issue you run into with a small hard drive is that your looking at 50% of the drives capacity being <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/consumed-2540963" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONSUMED">CONSUMED</a> just to have the computer functional for a system that surfs the web, and with the data on a 40GB drive <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/spread-1222907" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SPREAD">SPREAD</a> out among a lesser density per drive platter than that of say a 1TB Hard Drive the drive has to spin more revolutions to assemble the data that is being <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/fetchedbrbr-2639130" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FETCHED">FETCHED</a> from it and so the 40GB drive is lesser efficient than that of a 1TB hard drive because more revolutions are needed to assemble the data that needs to be read into memory, whereas the 1TB hard drive with a greater data density on the platter may be able to assemble 20x or more data per revolution of the drive depending on drive fragmentation. <br/><br/>However with a (SSD) solid state drive no matter the size of the drive and how little capacity may be left remaining the benchmark results of the read/write speed is pretty much a constant speed between a drive that is mostly empty and one that is almost full. The only catch to performance being in that Windows requires drive space for virtual memory swapping and so if a computer is lacking adequate space for virtual memory also known as paging or swap space, the system would run less efficient and a bottleneck to performance would happen as memory is limited.<br/><br/>The only issue I could see happening down the road with this build is that it only has 17.3GB free space and a major update of Windows 10 before I have seen require 16GB free on an Intel Atom Tablet that I have with onboard non upgradeable 32GB SSD. Because it only has 14GB free space its unable to update and is currently version locked at an older Windows 10 build which makes it potentially bad for security. One trick i will probably have to do with this is to create a symbolic link to a Micro SD Card so that Windows thinks the drive is larger than it is and then see if it would be able to be brought forward that way. I should have spent the extra money and got a tablet with 64GB but I didnt see this problem when I figured if I needed extra capacity I could just add a Micro SD Card to it.<br/><br/>So in closure to this. I wouldn't recommend installing Windows 10 onto a small drive that it can fit on, but it can be done. I would suggest a system with at least 120GB Hard Drive or SSD so it allows Windows 10 to grow on the drive as updates and software and personal data is stored. However if you don't need lots of data storage capacity and just use it as a computer for surfing the web and e-mail its plenty and if you ever run into a situation where a Windows update is not able to be installed because not enough free space, there is the option of downloading the latest Windows 10 build from Microsoft and performing a clean installation and being able to force the system to be securely patched. Unfortunately the tablet that I have does not support booting off of a USB stick otherwise I'd go that route with it to just blowing away the out of date build and installing latest and greatest Windows 10 build to it.<br/><br/>I have stacks of hard drives and SSD's of larger capacity, but when my wife nuked her system and it needed a rebuild, I saw this 40GB SSD figured I might as well have fun with her rebuild and see how a 40GB SSD would hold up in her system and so I  put a 9 year old Corsair F40 SSD to use and will have her burn up the last if its Read/Write life in a system that extra space is just wasted in. I'd rather toss away this 40GB SSD when its spent and no longer functional vs keeping it around and giving her a new Intel 545S 256GB drive that most of its extra space would be wasted. Additionally I don't like to throw away good parts I like to use them until they fail, or are lagging and not realistic to use anymore, or no longer supported by newer hardware and I no longer have a use for them.  <br/><br/></p></body></html>


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