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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
Windows 7 alone takes up nearly 20GB after updates.
Since a lot of games are 10GB+, I'd recommend going at least 120GB. This is all assuming you aren't going to have an extra storage drive.
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Does it really take up 20GB though? It will report that it occupies 20GB, but the WinSxS stuff is reported as space used even though its mostly just links on disk to single copies of system files.
See here for more info:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2...isk-space.aspx , among many other discussions of the impact of SxS on disk utilization.