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Help me reclaim HD space!


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So, I just built my new PC and I picked up a 120gb SSD. It's almost full already. :-(

I've been careful about what I've loaded onto it too. Below is a Screenie of where that space is going. Any idea how I get some of it back short of uninstalling the few programs I have installed? The biggest being Star Wars which is taking up like 30GB. Everything else, aside from photoshop is taking up only a few hundred MB at most.

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Reduce your page file and fix the size to something smaller like 2GB. Disable hibernate.

I just disabled hibernate. How do I reduce the pagefile and will that adversely affect the performance?

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Games usually don't profit TOO TOO much of SSDs apart from loading screens...

If you favor the faster OS and all the applications being faster over saving a few seconds on ocassional loading screens, move your games to an HDD.

For browser caches, use a RAM disk as well as for other caches and temporary stuff, in case you got some good amout of RAM going on.

iTunes media libraries can be moved to another drive, too... You barely profit from an SSD with them...

Windows installer at 600MB clogging around? Get lost, installer!

Downloads, installers, etc go into HDD camp.

Pagefile... really need it? Check your RAM and check it under load.

Hiberfil.sys makes me believe your RAM is 12GB, that is nice, how much of the RAM do you use?

RAM disks really could help you save maybe say up to 4GB. (stress: up to, or whatever size you make the RAM disk)

Now, do you need hibernation mode?

It's CONSTANTLY using disk space (when not in use theoretically just zero'd but hence reserved space, to prevent that during a hibernation shut down the system runs out of space to save the RAM image.)

Is that NVIDIA folder the installer or the installed part?

Do you need disk recovery? If you don't need it, turn it off.

I just disabled hibernate. How do I reduce the pagefile and will that adversely affect the performance?

That depends how much RAM you use.

If you ALWAYS have some RAM free even under your personal max load you tend to use, you can turn off the pagefile alltogether.

It's easily googable, I'd tell you, if I had Windows running atm.

Glassed Silver:mac

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Games usually don't profit TOO TOO much of SSDs apart from loading screens...

If you favor the faster OS and all the applications being faster over saving a few seconds on ocassional loading screens, move your games to an HDD.

For browser caches, use a RAM disk as well as for other caches and temporary stuff, in case you got some good amout of RAM going on.

iTunes media libraries can be moved to another drive, too... You barely profit from an SSD with them...

Windows installer at 600MB clogging around? Get lost, installer!

Downloads, installers, etc go into HDD camp.

Pagefile... really need it? Check your RAM and check it under load.

Hiberfil.sys makes me believe your RAM is 12GB, that is nice, how much of the RAM do you use?

RAM disks really could help you save maybe say up to 4GB. (stress: up to, or whatever size you make the RAM disk)

Now, do you need hibernation mode?

It's CONSTANTLY using disk space (when not in use theoretically just zero'd but hence reserved space, to prevent that during a hibernation shut down the system runs out of space to save the RAM image.)

Is that NVIDIA folder the installer or the installed part?

Do you need disk recovery? If you don't need it, turn it off.

That depends how much RAM you use.

If you ALWAYS have some RAM free even under your personal max load you tend to use, you can turn off the pagefile alltogether.

It's easily googable, I'd tell you, if I had Windows running atm.

Glassed Silver:mac

My ram is actually at 16gb.

My itunes media library is still on the HDD. I turned off hibernation mode. That Nvidia is the installed part. I'm not sure what a 'ram disk' is for the browser cache. With Star Wars it benefits immensely from the SSD because of their garbage programming. They have cutscenes for EVERY single quest. So every few minutes your getting more loading garbage. That, along with 1 other game(league of legends) are the only games I have installed on here.

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My ram is actually at 16gb.

My itunes media library is still on the HDD. I turned off hibernation mode. That Nvidia is the installed part. I'm not sure what a 'ram disk' is for the browser cache. With Star Wars it benefits immensely from the SSD because of their garbage programming. They have cutscenes for EVERY single quest. So every few minutes your getting more loading garbage. That, along with 1 other game(league of legends) are the only games I have installed on here.

Ok, then it's sensible.

Ramdisks are virtual partitions that appear like a normal HDD to the OS and applications.

They are created using a software that runs on start up for example and uses allocated RAM to create such virtual partition.

Of cause, on reboot this partition is empty again, as RAM doesn't store the data after a shut down/reboot, but for caches/temporary stuff and junk like that it doesn't matter, that's why many people used it back in the days when HDDs were quite slow and RAM a lot faster.

It's not saving you way way too much possibly, but it's worth a try, maybe just decreasing the cache sizes is a more feasible option to you (hint: browser settings!) if you have a fast connection to the internet.

Ramdisk usage for browser caches, that actually means you can use the ramdisk partition to store the temporary internet files, etc...

Maybe with a bit tweaking you could use it to store the flash cache, too.

Or uninstall flash, if you don't need it, as it can claim quite a bit of space over time for caching etc...

At 16GB it's pretty much save to just disable the pagefile alltogether.

Seriously, send it to nirvana!

Glassed Silver:mac

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That Nvidia is the installed part.

Nah that's where the installer extracts the setup files. It's safe to delete after you have installed/updated your drivers. You could do the same with the Intel folder as well. :)

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Nah that's where the installer extracts the setup files. It's safe to delete after you have installed/updated your drivers. You could do the same with the Intel folder as well. :)

Okay, I'm an ATI user, hence I wasn't exactly sure whether ATI and nVidia are doing the same thing here.

In this case, NVIDIA folder be gone!

ZAP IT!

Glassed Silver:mac

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