SSD Space

Hi

I have a 80GB Intel SSD, looking at about 50GB empty space.

What should I do to save space on my HDD? I put most of my programs on an external drive

 

Here is the answer to your question

If you already have 50GB empty space, why would you want to get even more space?

It's not going to give any benefits.

 

I'm just kinda worried...that space is shrinking slowly

Better safe than sorry

 

you might consider turning off system restore and using tune up utilities , get ridd of old internet pages , cookies and data to get more space.. just one thing , why do u want 50GB space free?

 

i'm not sure exactly why i need 50GB but i dont want to be at a position where I have 1 GB left and pondering what to delete and such

 

u should have got an 160GB to not worry lol ..

 

See here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/6454980-post6010.html

 

#2 on that link saved my friend over 120GB in Vista. That's probably my favorite tweak.

 

You're welcome.

 

squelchy451,

What is the point of the SSD if you don't install your programs on it?

As to the free space question, you could easily reverse those numbers (use about 50GB and the remainder ~24GB free) before you should start getting concerned (performance and/or spacewise).

To save space is a no brainer: don't store video/music/data/downloads on it that you are not currently and actively using.

As for the O/S and the programs you need, the space they use is what it is - you can try to delete any sample data (including Windows sample video/music/etc.) they might install by default, but if you really need to use that specific program, not much else you can do.

If this is a notebook as I assume it is, I highly do not recommend disabling the hibernation file. Unless all you do on this computer is meaningless (to you) then when the battery dies the computer will simply switch off without saving your work instead of giving you the option to continue from that point with a hibernation file in place.

Cheers!

 

Hibernation is up to the user, but its a waste of valuable storage space IMHO. I have never used hibernation (except a handful of times just to try it), and if you set your alert at 10% gives you plenty of time to save and shut down. Especially with people starting to elect 6GB or 8GB of RAM, that's 5% of your storage space gone for no real good reason with a 160GB Intel.

Not to mention how many people have had issues with systems coming out of a hibernation state. Only instance I can see where it might save you is if you closed your laptop, it went to sleep, you forgot about it, and the battery died or it shut down automatically. Even then it's really bad practice to not save periodically and especially before sleep or hibernation. I wouldn't trust your system to keep your data alive with either sleep or hibernation, it's more of a convenience than anything else.

 

In my opinion hibernation is a great feature, not just for empty batteries. I disabled it anyway because I'm on a 46GB SSD.

I hadn't even noticed that. That's not a wise idea, buying an SSD and then putting your programs on an external hard drive.

You're saving space though

 

I like the idea of hibernation, absolutely. But I've had quirks trying to use it when I thought I'd give it a shot. System would hang and require a reboot anyhow.

Also, like I said, relying on sleep or hibernation to keep your data without saving is a bad move. You'd be more apt to lose data after a hangup from sleep or hibernation wakeup than the once in a very great while battery comletely dying.

And yeah, with lower capacity SSD's space is at a premium, it's harder to justify hibernation.

 

IDK why but hibernation doesnt work on my laptop....I tried many solultions for enabling it including going to the power menu and using some command prompt voodoo

 

It's about a 50% successful recovery from hibernation for me, usually I just let it sleep even if it's for a whole day.

 

Bingo, this is why I don't recommend hibernate. In theory its great, but in reality it's too glitchy even after all these years.

 

I never had any problem with hibernation, on countless laptops with countless different hard drives.

 

Yeah, it seems really surprising that people are facing problems, with hibernation. Me and quite a lot of my friends do it regularly. [In fact, we sometimes have put the system for hibernation when a game is running(ie. lots of resources used) and still it managed to resume fine]

 

Maybe just depends on the way the laptop handles suspending tasks and resuming them. I wish it were more robust, but like I said, it's a mixed bag unfortunately.

 

same here on a dell , lenovo , thinkpads or even my hp..

i guess so.. asus seems to have problems with this..