Complete Clean OS Install -> 90GB & 2.9GB Usage??? (M6600)

I did clean os install on my RAID 0 machine. After downloading all the neccesary drivers, I installed the most basic programs: anti virus, office 2007, ccleaner, browsers. These basic programs themselves do not constitute too much in drive space.

After all windows update downloads, my hard drive is occupied 90GB. When I restart the computer, the IDLE ram usage is 2.9gb. I of course disabled virtually all non using programs from starting up, using MSCONFIG.

So what seems to be the problem?? Are the drivers taking too much space? At this rate, I do not see how 128gb msata drive will be capable of handling the os and other 3D programs...

What numbers are you guys seeing?

 

Did you look in the task manager at the exact processes that are running?

 

75 processes are running. Which is very normal for any idle machine. Not sure why the windows is utilizing this much, and hard drive space is so occupied in the first place!

 

If hibernation is enabled, you will have a 32GB hibernation file (since you have 32GB of RAM). As for the memory usage, this is probably just due to the superfetch caching in Windows 7.

 

+1.

Disk usage is probably a combination of your pagefile and hibernation matching/scaling to the 32GB of RAM. With that much RAM, you could probably reduce the page file.

RAM usage might be also system cache. Check your Task Manager's Performance tab under Physical Memory (MB) to see what it's saying for "Cached".

 

you could also check for restore points that windows has done if it's enabled, this alone eats a lot of space.

 

Approx. 80 GB disk space is occupied because of your RAM. If you are not doing hibernate, you can disable it, so you will have +32 GB instantly. The pagefile should take 48 GB space, it's just plain waste. I have 8 GB RAM in my machine, and I set the pagefile for a 2 GB maximum, and 256 MB initial size, and I think it never exceeded the 256 MB size. For this amount of RAM pagefile is pretty much almost useless.

My RAM usage is a bit over 1 GB, rebooted, idle, with Win7 Prof X64.

 

Thank you for your help. Do you think that setting 128kb strip size for RAID 0 might have easily occupied the hdd space?