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    How much free space you leave on your hard disk?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dumitrumitu24, Oct 13, 2014.

  1. dumitrumitu24

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    Im wondering how much you leave free space and whats the optimum without losing performance in games,applications etc.Is there a limit for defragmentiation where after you pass that you cant defragment your hard drive???
     
    dumitrumitu24, Oct 13, 2014
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    I read somewhere it is more important for SSDs to have more free space, so I try to keep about 40GB free out of 320GB. There is no defragging for SSDs.
     
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    OKay but i read that in XP you cant defrag you drive if you have less than 15% free space.Whats the limit for windows 7 and 8???cause if i buy evil within i will have about 30GB free space left of 750GB..Is that okay?
     
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    Can you move something to external drive? Not sure about special limits for defragging, but I'd try to keep a little more space free if you can.
     
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    15% is a limitation of XP's defrag program which you should never use.
    Use piriform Defraggler.60-80GB of free space for a partition looks fine. You can install another game or download anything hassless.
     
    James D, Oct 13, 2014
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    I don't usually go past this. I think the smallest I've let my games drive get was 80GB free.
     
    D2 Ultima, Oct 14, 2014
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    My data HDDs are always more than 95% full and never have any problem "yet" (2000-4000 power one count, 15k + power on hours).
     
    baii, Oct 15, 2014
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