For Windows versions that require the hibernation file to be in
the system partition, how do you hibernate a 32GB system?
I try to avoid Windows, but that said, surely even Windows doesn't need
to save every bit of RAM in order to hibernate. Spent buffers, etc.,
can be discarded.
Also, some consumer SSDs like being only 1/2 or 1/3 full, depending
on how many bits per cell, so you only want to use 1/2 or 1/3 of the
SSD anyhow.
I try to avoid SSDs with serious performance issues to the extent
possible; life is too short. And as I said, I generally opt for the
120GB drives, anyway, because the incremental cost tends to be low. So
I don't recall ever encountering the issue.
I consider boot drives to be expendable, with important stuff belonging
on file servers, except sometimes while actually being worked on (for
reasons of computational efficiency). One tries to keep expendables
cheap; hence, I try not to dramatically oversize boot drives.
The way I work (typically with video), I might pull down a half dozen GB
to a workstation (that takes what? a minute or two?), work on it for a
while (perhaps an hour) and then put it back on the server. Smaller
tasks can work directly off of files that stay on the server, with only
buffer files being on the local machine.
The SSDs that matter in my scenario are the log files on the server, and
those aren't all that large. They're fairly small, very fast, and
mirrored. They, too, are expendable (as long as not all the mirrors die
at once!).
So I guess the bottom line is that it depends on the kind of work you
do. If for some reason you need to carry everything with you, the
balance might be different. But even then, I would have a small SSD as
"boot drive" and a large(-ish), preferably redundant, hard disk for data.
JMHO, YMMV
