re: can you tell me if this desktop is decent

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I was also hoping to run office 2013 off SSD

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Are you still worrying if 128 GB will be enough?

My Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center x64 system is taking up 65 GB.

Looking at the installation folders, the largest programs are Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate (3 GB), Office Professional Plus 2013 + Visio 2013 (1.1 GB), and Guitar Pro 6 (690 MB). There is a bunch of other smaller software installed.

While I moved my Documents, Music, Recorded TV, etc folders to other drives, XBMC and Plex collectively use about 4 GB on the system drive for their libraries, and they are the biggest data users on the SSD. YMMV. (Of course that 4 GB number doesn't include the actual media, which is stored on other drives.)

Included in the 65 GB is a 13 GB hibernation file, which is for use by the UPS during long power outages - hybrid sleep is disabled to save pointless writes to the SSD. The pagefile is currently 2 GB.

So 128 GB would be plenty of room for my installation, even allowing a decent amount of scratch space for various things. I would still recommend 256, especially with SSDs having become so cheap.