[OPLINTECH] SSD size for Windows 10

[Whetsel, Shawn]

Kevin,

We just upgraded every Staff machine in the system to Windows 10 and Office 2016 with a 120GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Coming from the 160GB 7200RPM HD’s and 2GB of RAM Win7 and Office 2007 it was a big upgrade. Once partitioned, it’s about 111GB of usable space. Then with Windows 10, Office 2016, current updates, Java, .net, Sierra, all the other normal stuff, and users having been using them for a month now, we run around 36GB used. (75 GB free) We are working on the Public PC upgrade and getting them upgraded to the same specs. CDWG was able get us the quantities of everything which was nice, and at the same price as I could find it on sites like Amazon. (1000 SSD’s and 1000 8GB RAM kits is a tall order)

                We went with 120GB for the same reason of keeping costs down, and also to encourage network drive use for storage and not local drives. I can’t back up everyone’s hard drive on the fly, but I can back up a server drive on the fly. When we removed our Win 7 drives almost all of them were around the 60GB mark for usage after 4-5 years of updates. Hope this helps!

Shawn Whetsel
Information Technology Manager | Information Technology
Akron-Summit County Public Library
330-643-9161
www.akronlibrary.org<http://www.akronlibrary.org>

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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 12:45 PM
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Subject: [OPLINTECH] SSD size for Windows 10

Hello All,

I am getting ready to purchase some Windows 10 computers for circulation desks.  They will have Windows 10 64 bit, MS Office, and Workflows installed on them.  Will a 128 GB SSD be large enough to allow for 5-6 years of Windows updates?  There is a considerable jump in price when you go to a 256 GB SSD.

I have 6 year old Windows 7 computers running on 60 GB SSD.  A couple of those were down to 1 GB of free space until I dumped all of the download files from Windows update.  After deleting those files, the freep space was between 10-12 GB.

After working with computers with SSD, I wouldn't want to use anything else.

Kevin Jones
Network Admin
Coshocton Public Library
655 Main Street
Coshocton, OH 43812
Phone:  740-622-0956
Fax:  740-622-4331
coshoctonlibrary.org<http://coshoctonlibrary.org>
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