Solid State Drive - Space issues, help!

cristoff · 12 Oct 2011 at 07:52

I have a 40GB SSD i use as the primary drive on my system. When installed windows 7 it used up about 29Gb if memory serves me correctly. I have had it about a year now and slowly but surely my free space has beaten away.

I have deleted/uninstalled just about everything i can and am stuck now with about 350mb free space left!

I am thinking it is windows update that is robbing me of all my space, would this be a correct assumption?

Would there be a way of correcting this (say, install a service pack which would allow me to delete all updates up to that point, for example)?

Are there any hidden folders that i should look at emptying?

I dont have the restore settings on.

Or do i bite the bullet and fork out for another SSD?

cheers in advance

FlyingPig · 12 Oct 2011 at 07:57

Have you disabled the pagefile and hibernation? That would be about the only way to free up space significantly.

cristoff · 12 Oct 2011 at 08:33

FlyingPig said:
Have you disabled the pagefile and hibernation? That would be about the only way to free up space significantly.

Not exactly sure what that is?

FlyingPig · 12 Oct 2011 at 08:37

cristoff said:
Not exactly sure what that is?

Google is your friend, my friend

Read http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-performance-tweak,2911-4.html

Only disable the pagefile if you have a lot of memory. I believe you can also reduce it, as I have done.
Disabling the hibernation you can do for sure, that should save you some space.

FlyingPig · 12 Oct 2011 at 08:38

For disabling hibernation, do this:

In the Start menu search box, type "cmd" without the quotes
Right-click the cmd program and select Run as Administrator
In the command line, type "powercfg -h off", again without the quotes

cristoff · 12 Oct 2011 at 10:46

Done both those, will see how i get on with it. is there anything particular i should be looking out for/wary of? Will i see a change in any performance?

thanks for the help

FlyingPig · 13 Oct 2011 at 08:46

Performance should stay the same as far as I know but don't take my word for all of this. I was new to it too until someone on here told me about it. Have you done the changes and got any more space now?