Hidden, hidden memory on SSD

dmarshall29 · 13 May 2011 at 19:07

I have a Vertex 2 120gb which I use mainly just for my OS but also for a handful of games so I have to make sure that I don't use too much. Recently I checked to see what my ssd contained using a program called jdiskreport and this is what it found:

The report included the page file and Hiberfil. The test reports says that I have used up 41.9gb, yet however when I check properties on the C drive in windows explorer it says 44gb used leaving me 67.6gb left free. I have used other programs aside from jdiskreport but they all report about 42gb used.

So just out of curiosity I was wondering what this hidden 2gb actually was and if it would expand?

dmarshall29 · 13 May 2011 at 19:25

Possibly, I just deleted all my system restores which added up to like 5gb+ so now windows is reporting 38.2gb used and jdisk is reporting the same 41.9gb :S lol so its gone the opposite way now. Does windows explorer count the page file as used memory?

dmarshall29 · 13 May 2011 at 19:40

It has a system reserve of 100mb

dmarshall29 · 13 May 2011 at 23:34

Well that would explain a lot lol

dmarshall29 · 14 May 2011 at 00:45

Gazanimal said:
Taken from the OCZ website:

Probably explains the discrepancy

O wait you mean what every other manufacture does to make it seem like you are getting more memory. by rounding down 1024 to 1000. I know that im allready taking in to account that I have 111.6gb space not 120gb.