Whats your storage space like?

[DXCHASE]

How much space you working with? I need to do some cleaning.

 

[Zloth]

Wow, a 1.81TB A drive? That is one hell of a floppy disk, @DXCHASE!

Wait a minute... cleaning? (Looks at his free space) Uh oh.

 

[Alm]

I literally have just installed a 4tb M.2

My computer has a relatively high amount of free space as I upgraded recently thanks to the fine folks here.

https://imgur.com/a/Toqn360

View: https://imgur.com/a/Toqn360

 

[D10S]

got two 256GB 850 Pro's in the drawer that I used to run in RAID0 for OS drive, but I don't now. need to buy an external enclosure and use them on the go, or just use the copious amount of usb connectors on my board (I think I have like 14 of them altogether) to expand desktop storage.

 

[Pifanjr]

Not at my PC right now, but let's just say I had to delete Baldur's Gate 3 because there wasn't enough room left on my SSD to install the new patch. Though the game does need to basically copy all of its ~120GB files to install the patch...

 

[Brian Boru]

I had to delete Baldur's Gate 3 because there wasn't enough room left on my SSD to install the new patch

Bad choice, you should've deleted Windows instead, installed patch, and then run SFC /scannow to get back up and running!
[don't try this at home]

D is HDD for data, C & G are SSD—G for games, C for OS and all software.

PS have you run Disk Cleanup or similar? There can be a lot of unnecessary files in a C drive.
And straight from a long run at the 'Is there gas in the tank' casino comes Have you emptied the Recycle Bin?

 

[BeardyHat]

Mine is all over the place. First image is my laptop (with server share included), second my desktop/server and lastly my Deck.

https://imgur.com/a/ULQYzPQ

Main drives are pretty much full, though I could delete 90% of everything, given I generally just play one thing at a time.

 

[Zimbaly]

c: 53gb free of 464
d:253gb free of 930gb
e:319gb free of 1.81.tb

Also my steam deck is a 512gb, got a 512 card and a 128 I believe the other one is....

 

[Brian Boru]

Main drives are pretty much full

Are you not experiencing issues with your C: drive so full? Very little room there for the OS to shuffle stuff around as needed. I advise some cleaning.

PS I should've added my 4TB external backup to my list, but I leave it unplugged most of the time.

 

[Slasken]

 

[Zloth]

Have you emptied the Recycle Bin?

I'm a bit nutty with the recycle bin. If I see the bin has something in it and I don't remember for sure what it was, I'll wipe it out. I've got PLENTY of space, so there's no need to do that, but I always do. I think I've only regretted it once in all the years since taking things out of the trash became possible.

 

[BeardyHat]

Are you not experiencing issues with your C: drive so full? Very little room there for the OS to shuffle stuff around as needed. I advise some cleaning.

PS I should've added my 4TB external backup to my list, but I leave it unplugged most of the time.

Never had a problem with any of my machines regarding that, though I imagine I'm not using a whole lot of page file, given that all my machines have lots of RAM.

 

[Pifanjr]

I never put anything into the recycle bin, everything gets shift+deleted.

I got around to taking a screenshot:

The C: drive has Windows and other random software and the D: drive has all of our games.

 

[Brian Boru]

I'm a bit nutty with the recycle bin

You tryin' to make us think that's limited to the recycle bin? Yeah, nice try…

But you can ease your tensions via Task Scheduler

Never had a problem

Good to hear, that's the main thing! I keep at least 15% free, which is generally recommended by those who should know, eg:

Tom's

Robots

page file

Been a while since I looked at that—no need anymore, Windows is now very good at managing that automatically—but unless it's changed, if I recall correctly Windows will put the page file on a different drive if it needs more space. But yeah, lots of RAM should limit usage to third-party programs looking for the default page file, and storing the dump files for BSODs.

 

[Colif]

All these full drives, are they hdd or ssd? Hdd it doesn't matter so much but it helps to keep 10% of an ssd empty to maintain speed.

Think I have enough free space right now.
3tb hdd has 1gb used on it... probably replace it with a 4tb at some stage.

How much space you working with? I need to do some cleaning.

Naming a drive A can have negative effects. Like Zloth mentioned, its a floppy drive letter... or was. A lot of programs still see it as a floppy letter and won't let you save to it... Google drive is one. I ran into that recently on Tom's. Just a thought... if it works, great... but it might not always for everything.

 

[Brian Boru]

Hdd it doesn't matter so much

Has something changed with HDDs last decade? It used to matter a lot, some experts recommending as high as 25% free, don't recall ever seeing a recommendation under 15%.

Naming a drive A can have negative effects

Yep, agree with this. It's like putting Windows on a drive other than C:—sure you can do it, but you're setting yourself up for weird problems down the road.

 

[Sarafan]

Here are my current stats.

I use one SSD M.2 NVMe drive (512 GB) and two SSD SATA drives (256 GB and 1 TB). I'm planning to change the NVMe drive for something bigger in the future, but currently I don't have mood for system reinstall. Besides I still don't use all of the available space, so why hurry with this?

 

[BeardyHat]

You tryin' to make us think that's limited to the recycle bin? Yeah, nice try…

But you can ease your tensions via Task Scheduler



Good to hear, that's the main thing! I keep at least 15% free, which is generally recommended by those who should know, eg:

Tom's

Robots



Been a while since I looked at that—no need anymore, Windows is now very good at managing that automatically—but unless it's changed, if I recall correctly Windows will put the page file on a different drive if it needs more space. But yeah, lots of RAM should limit usage to third-party programs looking for the default page file, and storing the dump files for BSODs.

Interesting, I was unaware of this.

Now I'm curious if I have any disk benchmarks from when I installed these SSDs (though I guess I wouldn't in my laptop, as it's "new" and I haven't swapped it) to compare performance.

Cleaning up is something I do here and there anyway, but not out of any duty to my SSD. Instead, I suddenly have the epiphany that I'm really only playing one game at a time so I should delete most everything else and keep my downloaded library clean/minimal.

 

[BeardyHat]

Well there we go. On my laptop, which I use the most, I deleted a whole bunch of stuff and went from 9Gb to 220Gb.

 

[Brian Boru]

currently I don't have mood for system reinstall

Unless NVMe is diff, you don't need to reinstall as long as new drive is same or larger—a disc image and restore, or else a cloning, should do the job. Might take an hour or so.

 

[Zloth]

But you can ease your tensions via Task Scheduler

But it will delete too earrrrrrly! I just know it!!

Been a while since I looked at that—no need anymore,

Thank goodness. First, we had to set the size to something fixed (and preferably with as little fragmentation as possible). Then it was setting Windows so it wouldn't use one at all - better just take the out of memory error. Now, we don't even care.

 

[Sarafan]

Unless NVMe is diff, you don't need to reinstall as long as new drive is same or larger—a disc image and restore, or else a cloning, should do the job. Might take an hour or so.

Yeah, I know that there are good alternatives to system reinstall. I've never done this before, so it might be a good idea to make an experimental cloning before the main one. Maybe I'll do it one day.

 

[Frindis]

I got 1 TB SSD and 2x 2TB HDD. I'm so used to having HDD, I don't want to replace them all with SSD.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Recently went all SSD as my old 2TB spinner started giving off warnings. I have an external 1 TB drive for backup, 1TB Gen 3 drive as a boot drive and a 2 TB cheaper DRAMless Gen 4 for games and general storage. There's an old Samsung 850 500GB drive as well, I cant tell the difference between any of them in normal use.

 

[EightEqualsD]

I have 2 1TB m.2s for OS, software and games I'm playing. I also have a 1TB SATA SSD and 1TB HDD. Those are mostly for downloads, pics, videos, games I may or may not ever get around to playing and any other mass storage.