In the old days we had a 500 GB harddrive, now only 128 SSD. Does that limit your capacity to install programs and store large files?
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Yes it is !! But now they have the ext . HD so no need I don't need that much space doe the HD on the comp.
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Hi Johu, yes, it certainly does, as it is about 25%. However, I strongly recommend using SSDs as you will certainly notice a huge difference in performance, in everything you do. For your information, you will actually have 106GB available. Windows, plus other software installed will take you about 20/25GB, so you will remain really with 80GB, hopefully a bit more. In case you need more capacity for media files, which can take up storage, you can always use an external drive. For me, it's working just fine.
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It depends on what you plan to store in the notebook. I don't have a lot of movies, and use GMail as an email account. For instance if you use outlook with a GMail account it could use 10Gb of space. Besides this, I won't buy a regular hard drive in the future. SSD disks are superfast. My PC starts up in less that 4 seconds, and consumes less battery. My recommendation will be to buy a ssd disk and an external hd for storing photos, movies, and anything that you don't need on a daily basis. Hope this help on making your decision.
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You should have plenty of room to install all the programs you need, but you can't store unlimited movie files, for instance. If you want to carry all your media files on a single, local drive, this is probably not the best device. If you use a network storage device or have access to a cloud server, though, you won't notice the difference in disk capacity and the faster access to what you do have on the Acer does tend to offset the smaller disc size.
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I don't use my computer to store files. I use it for the internet mainly. I Access my office via the web. I will tell you that with its not a lot of memory as I have nothing really currently stored on it and only have way less than 100 GB of storage left.
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SSD's are much faster than "regular" hard drives. It turns on super fast and processes super fast as well. I love this computer. The only thing I dislike is windows 8
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Hard Drive is rated 128gb SSD, but in reality you'll see 104gb. And with windows 8.1 installed free memory is about 50gb.
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It has a 64 GB hard drive but with Windows installed, I have 49.9 GB of usable storage.
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32GB is not enough for program loading,i suggest you order a 128GB SSD. Find the lowest price SSD at Amazon.
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Its a mistake in the specs because technically this PC doesnt have a standard hard drive but SSD instead. SSD is much faster and takes the place of a hard drive. So it has a 128GB "Hard drive" made up of SSD.
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Copied info from 500 GB to 960 GB SSD; ran into problem and was unable to run programs on the new hard drive. when re-installing the original 500 GB drive files were corrupted. Took extensive effort to solve the issue
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Tha laptop have Just one Hd anda it is 128gb ssd maybe refer to 0gb ofrece HDD disk organización mechanical disk
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Yes, provided the SSD has as much space as you need. I moved the data folders (documents, pictures, music, etc.) onto a standard hard drive, then cloned just the operating system and most-used programs onto the SSD. That gives fast boot and response from the SSD, but cheaper bulk storage on the standard hard drive.
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I will agree with the other two comments.. Just upgrade the drive to a larger size. Storage is pretty cheap these days. Good Luck!
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The Samsung Magician software reserves 10% for over provisioning which is to improve lifespan and performance of the drive. With formatting and over provisioning of a 500 Gb drive, I have 419 Gb free.
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Your system might be different, but mine ordered a couple of weeks ago had 4Gb of memory. The hard drive is 500Gb. It's certainly the minimum you would want, but the system is dirt cheap and you can add memory.
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It has 500 GB HDD (not SSD), but today it doesn't mean much. Personally, I'm using few external HDs (for e-books, for pictures, for movies, for music etc.) which is very convenient.
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Steffan is correct. Look up overprovisioning in google. Sandisk and Intel does this for you while companies like Samsung expect you to just partition the drive smaller or use their tool to shrink the drive if you install it using the Max size. You need to over provision an ssd for it to work properly, but some companies want you to see that 256GB on the box and think "Well, that is bigger than 240GB, Ill get the bigger one"
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This model has a 1TB 5400RPM HDD, but also has a free hard drive bay. The first thing I did was buy a 500GB Samsung 840 SDD to boost system performance. I reinstalled windows on the new SSD and only use the 1 TB drive for movies, music, and other media.
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Upgrading is possible. I just changed my HDD to an SSD. now it is super fast. Memory upgrade is also possible. though apple recommends only upto an 8GB, people have proved that it can really be upgraded to a 16GB. 128 GB SSD cost 50+ USD where as an 8GB(2x4) cost nearly 70 USD or less.
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The new drive MUST have at least the same capacity as the original drive. In other words, the SSD drive must be equal to 300GB or more for it to wor, regardless of how much data you have on the original drive.
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If the reason you are making the change from the 1TB drive is to go to solid state, you should have no problem making the change to the 500 GB SSD. I bought the 500 SSD to hold only my operating system and the files that go with the default C drive. All programs and other files go to a different drive or drives. Hope this helps.