> I don't get this. At most, I partition 30gb for System - though with TinyXP, and > given I don't have assloads of large apps, I only do 10gb and have a few left after > all's said an done.
My arcade cabinet has a 40GB Intel SSD as the primary boot drive. I'm using a stock install of XP 64-bit edition and I have tons of free space. I have a secondary 500GB western digital caviar green drive for emulators, ROMs, and my front-end. Eventually, I'll probably need to swap it out for a 1TB WD green drive, but for now, it's plenty large enough.
Browsing Newegg.com, you can get 32GB SSD drives for $60, and 64GB SSD drives for $100. The prices are always coming down. I think I paid around $100 for my 40G.