Pemalite said:
hinch said:
The more you know. That's tiny lol. Windows 7 64bit would have taken up half of that.
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Back in 2009 during the early years of SSD's, you were a "king" if you had a 64GB SSD... And basically wealthy if you had a 128 SSD, 256GB and larger drives were obscenely expensive.
Back then a 32GB SSD wasn't uncommon either.
Often though many "50GB" SSD's were actually 64GB, but manufacturers count a Gigabyte in terms of "1000" bytes rather than the appropriate 1024, so you ended up with 62.5GB of real-world space... And then drive manufacturers would take a chunk of that NAND for spare-area/garbage collection and wear levelling bringing it down to 50GB.
In-fact many SSD cache drives like Optaine, Crucial Adrenaline had 50GB storage capacities as well for various reasons.
It's an odd-ball capacity.
Windows 7 though did take up a chunk of storage space, I think it took about a 3rd of my 64GB SSD back in 2009, but you can claw some space back by reducing page file size, limiting recycle bin capacity and getting rid of hibernation and the hyberfil file which is the same size as your Ram capacity.
Obviously a non-issue in 2020 with drives being super cheap even at 500GB... Unless you have 256GB of Ram, then the hiberfil file will take 256GB of disk space... But you could afford to have more than 500GB of SSD storage anyway.
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Interesting. Yeah I remember when early SSD were THE thing and they were expensive and out of reach for most people. 128GB+ was seen as unobtainable to most consumers due to silly prices.
Its the same with high capacity harddrives when I was growing up. It's pretty fascinating seeing how tech evolves. And now we have affordable GPU's capable of full RT and VR which was unthinkable 10 years ago.
I remember looking back and growing up with small MP3 players with tiny MB's of flash drives (yes I know lol), which then turned to the modern IPOD, and then to smartphones. Who knows maybe in 10 years from now HDD's will be all but a thing of past but for data centres and businesses.
