How large a partition is best? What does a larger partition get you? Minimum Partitions size?
This is for a MBP 15", 356G SSD, 16G RAM, I'm barely using 80G on OSX SSD now.
Thanks in advance.
Bob
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 128G SSD, 15" Early 2011, 16G RAM
My imac have 2tb hd i gave win8 half but then i play games
Minimum is probbly 60GB for Windows 7 64-bit, 80GB is safe, and when using SSD you want to allow 11% to be setaside for provisioning and almost a month's writes space.
Because Windows will on notebooks default to larger page size than you need, and hibernation, take your 16GB and double it and realize you want to take that into account.
Windows in theory is about 22GB but it is only after the install and updates - updates are highly compressed and needed to be unpacked and temp files written during an install.
Yes, Mac can get along and use just 40GB even.
Games and large apps can use more space.
356GB is an odd number for any SSD. 500GB yes, 480GB too, must be 120GB x 3 somehow.
If you are using 80GB for mac, then I would go for 50/50 or about 160GB for each. Won't hurt and won['t have to change it later.
Thank you, "The hatter". Yes, I was working from memory and was completely wrong about size...just checked...It is a Crucial 512G M4 SSD. This still doesn't meet the 120 X format you mention?
Given that, I could go 256 G on each partition.
Any reason I wouldn't want to do that?
Bob
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