new OCZ SSD: Agility

[Telperion]

I feel like if you're conservative with your space, 30GB is perfectly fine for Vista and Windows 7. Especially if you use a vLite install, you can chop out of a lot of stuff you'll probably never use.

Either way, I feel this is a moot point, some people end up using more space than others.

You can't control the size of the Winsxs folder, so no matter how conservative you are, if it decides to grow to 20-30GB, you're just out of luck.

[salad]

Has anybody tried turning on file and folder compression using an SSD? Any word on performance hits -- or improvements (since there's less data to write and CPU power is abundant)?

[cantankerous]

You can't control the size of the Winsxs folder, so no matter how conservative you are, if it decides to grow to 20-30GB, you're just out of luck.

Wow, I just looked into this Winsxs folder for the first time on my new installation of Windows 7 and it is already at 6GB! It is possible to clear this folder out or is it absolutely needed? I would love to free up the space if I can, but am unsure on the repercussions of doing so.

[zalbard]

It is possible to clear this folder out or is it absolutely needed? I would love to free up the space if I can, but am unsure on the repercussions of doing so.

I wouldn't do that. Best don't delete stuff sitting in your Windows folder unless you want to kill your system.
Mine is 5.62Gb after a couple of months of use btw.

[Praz]

Wow, I just looked into this Winsxs folder for the first time on my new installation of Windows 7 and it is already at 6GB! It is possible to clear this folder out or is it absolutely needed? I would love to free up the space if I can, but am unsure on the repercussions of doing so.

What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large?

[PaVi90]

Hi all,
here a new review about the OCZ AGILITY 120GB model, with latest firmware and support to GC/TRIM.

If you want, HERE the english-translated page.

[XS Janus]

Thanks for the link!
BUt why revive this... post it in the storage subforum.

[STaRGaZeR]

BUt why revive this...

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[Afterburner]

Wow, I just looked into this Winsxs folder for the first time on my new installation of Windows 7 and it is already at 6GB! It is possible to clear this folder out or is it absolutely needed? I would love to free up the space if I can, but am unsure on the repercussions of doing so.

I wouldn't do that. Best don't delete stuff sitting in your Windows folder unless you want to kill your system.
Mine is 5.62Gb after a couple of months of use btw.

I believe 'eXPer1ence' has done a vlite of Win 7 whereby he removed a ton of stuff from the winsxs folder as one of the optimisations thus drastically reducing the footprint of Win 7 after installation.....

[Greg83]

I was doing similar with one of my win7 installations, until I messed it up.

Removed over 13GB from the install, from winsxs and syswow64 folders.
I got it down to about 1/3 of the files. Haven't continued the project thou.

[snoro]

why need some big ssd if they are mostly used for the os and the apps, give me a 100$ ssd of 30gb but with 400mb/s write and read speed and maybe a shorter acces time , i will buy two of those and put them in ssd and will be happy for a long long time

[lowfat]

I believe 'eXPer1ence' has done a vlite of Win 7 whereby he removed a ton of stuff from the winsxs folder as one of the optimisations thus drastically reducing the footprint of Win 7 after installation.....

The Windows directory on my Win7 install on my HTPC is only 6GB.