Is the 80GB Intel X25-M SSD large enough?

Wow...thanks for all the advice, you guys are most helpful :)

I think I'll get the 160GB and shove the existing 500GB HD into an external enclosure for extra storage.

Now what I gotta do is order a new MBP :D
 
Right now I have only 50GB used on my MacBook Pro's SSD; I don't think I'll be using any more space than that; anything else goes on external drives or my slow secondary HDD.
 
LoganT said:
Here's a few ideas on how to save some space.

When you install Snow Leopard, customize it. Uncheck any language you don't use, as well as uncheck the printers you aren't using. If down the road you have a new printer, the Mac will automatically download the drivers through software update. This is a great way to save space.

And the next is two software programs. Xslimmer and Squeeze. Both made by LateNiteSoft.

Xslimmer: "Remove unnecessary code from fat binaries. Xslimmer determines which code your machine needs and removes the rest. This is achieved by removing the code inside the Universal Binaries that does not fit with your machine's architecture, a code that never gets executed and just wastes your disk space." It also strips out any language you don't use (you can set it in the preference). That saves a lot of space.

Squeeze: "Squeeze is a background file compressor, which uses the new HFS-compression technology in Snow Leopard to transparently compress the folders you configure it to process. Mac OS will read those files normally, they will just take less disk space."

I have both of these applications and they're both great. I don't see any performance issues either, and this is on a 3.5 inch HD in an iMac.

I'm compressing my Applications folder now and it's already saved 660 MB, and it's not done yet. The savings with both of the applications may not be that great. But when space is scarce every mb counts.

You'll probably save GB's in XSlimmer, just from removing the languages alone.

http://squeezeapp.com/
http://www.xslimmer.com/
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That is excellent veteran advise. I almost forgot about these. I think I got a Squeeze license from the last MacHeist giveaway.
 
got a question regarding storage of music files - will itunes lag if my music collection is kept on a different drive than the boot drive where its installed? I remember having itunes read off a storage drive on my hackintosh and it was super laggy. If it doesn't, a small SSD would be perfect for me since all my media could be on the stock 500gb HD that the MBP came with.
 
80GB should be enough-

I have a 64gb samsung SSD in my macbook, with heaps of apps, 15gb of music.

Unless you're a fan of storing tons of movies on your computer, then you'll be fine ;)

I have 11gb of free space right now-

~mtt.
 
matttung said:
80GB should be enough-

I have a 64gb samsung SSD in my macbook, with heaps of apps, 15gb of music.

Unless you're a fan of storing tons of movies on your computer, then you'll be fine ;)

I have 11gb of free space right now-

~mtt.
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But I'm gonna be running Windows 7 in parallel so maybe it's safer to get something larger..

I guess I'm more interested in feedback about that Pretec Expresscard SSD drive listed on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pretec-128GB-Multi-Level-Express/dp/B002934ELM
 
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