How can I free up space on my SSD?

debitcardmayhem

closed wrote: »

Then you must have quite a lot of crud under your windows directory

I must admit I agree.
See these... W8(64bit) first and then W7(32bit) , Obviously the W8(.1) is fairly new , but the W7 is very old

Marty999

A further update: I saved around 5 GB now so I now have 9 GB free space on my SSD, so I am satisfied with that. Thank you everybody for your help. :beer:

Marty999

closed wrote: »

Windows7 shouldn't use up anywhere near 60GB, so where has the space gone

Not too sure. My Windows installation is just under 20 GB:

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz76/Martimus999/Cdrive1_zpse7f62265.jpg

and the largest folder in Windows is winsxs with 7.7 GB:

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz76/Martimus999/Cdrive2_zpsc31e8fbf.jpg

and the largest folder in winsxs is Backup with 548 MB.

I do have 4 user accounts but all docs etc are on the hard disk.
I'm still confused as to where my space has gone, but now I've regained 9 GB free space that seems fine and I will keep an eye on it.

Mr_Toad

While all of the above is good stuff my own opinion, and the reason I put an SSD in my laptop is speed, speed for all disk activity.

I know so many people who, for financial reasons, bought a small SSD for the operating system only. All well and good and they now have a machine that boots and shuts down quickly.

However, most of their software and/or the associated data are on HDDs and programs are still slow to start once the PC has booted. A lot of these people are now frustrated by this and wish they'd opted for a larger SSD. :mad:

I opt for a large SSD, 480GB, in my MacBook with everything on it and I have a machine that does everything a quicker than it did. My email client, documents, spreadsheets, everything start almost instantly.

I think the biggest problem is that people look at the SDD cost, in my case £280, and then compare what a similar HDD costs and get all money saving :money: and go for the cheaper alternate and a half way solution of mixed drives.

I am also going to replace the 1TB HDD in my desktop, iMac, with a large SSD now that they are becoming available.

Crucial do a 960GB SSD for £461 and I'm very tempted. I may wait a couple of months and see what happens to prices but I will be doing it at some point in the not to distant future.