Running out of space on SSD

PapaLazaru · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:51

Hi chaps.

I am running dangerously low on space on my boot drive, down to 2.36gb.

Now I only ever wants to use it for Win7 and updates. What can I delete to free up space?

1. Should I move the pagefile to another drive? Will it affect anything?

I also appears to have some ATI / AMD drivers on there which I don't think I need. I updatye through Steam now (am lazy) so assume all my ATI drivers are now held on my 'games' drive rather than the C drive?

Stuff like this

Any other windows crud I can ditch?

uv · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:18

you can start by removing restore points

run ccleaner, remove temp files, remove restore points

clade · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:19

Try running http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_disk_analyzer as it will look at all your directorys. Temp files could be 1kb but with 50 thousand of them it can add up. It will give u a better idea of where the space is going.

Swordfish · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:19

Disable hibernation - you will save space equivalent to the amount of ram you have.

uv · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:27

clade said:
Try running http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_disk_analyzer as it will look at all your directorys..

There's also SpaceSniffer, which is awesome

Sin_Chase · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:42

Swordfish said:
Disable hibernation - you will save space equivalent to the amount of ram you have.

^ this.

From an administrator elevated command prompt execute:
powercfg -h off

PapaLazaru · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:59

Swordfish said:
Disable hibernation - you will save space equivalent to the amount of ram you have.

Already disabled. pagefile is the only other large file which is obvious at 4gb. Might have to move it over.

Will try the other suggestions now.

PapaLazaru · 15 Jun 2011 at 22:30

Just saved 4gb by moving my pagefile onto my D drive.

Anyone got any thoughts about those drivers in the first pic?

deanolfc · 15 Jun 2011 at 23:23

empty the downloads folder

Sin_Chase · 16 Jun 2011 at 00:01

PapaLazaru said:
Just saved 4gb by moving my pagefile onto my D drive.

Anyone got any thoughts about those drivers in the first pic?

Moved it from the best place it can be. This is major *thumbsdown*

Surely there is something that benefits far less you can move off? 2.5GB is an acceptable limit to run your OS with assuming a full 4GB of pagefile is allocated.

hanluc · 16 Jun 2011 at 15:08

How big's the drive?

PapaLazaru · 16 Jun 2011 at 15:22

Sin_Chase said:
Moved it from the best place it can be. This is major *thumbsdown*

Surely there is something that benefits far less you can move off? 2.5GB is an acceptable limit to run your OS with assuming a full 4GB of pagefile is allocated.

Why is it the best place? Because it is an SSD and my D drive is mechanical?

hanluc said:
How big's the drive?

30gb.

Deleted all that old ATI stuff now as well.

Sin_Chase · 16 Jun 2011 at 22:46

Pagefile is generally perfectly matched to an SSDs strengths. Lot's of small operations in a fixed portion of the drive.

It's certainly going to benefit you more being there than moving it off for the sake of some apps instead.

From an MS blog:

Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.

In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that
Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.

In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.

I'm not saying you are going to get HUGE gains by leaving it on the SSD, just that there is likely other stuff you could move before you should decide to move the pagefile.