HDD Trouble

[Ubereem]

I have 60gb SSD with windows 7 x64 installed on it. IT shows 55gb are used but I can only find around 30gb. Where are these hidden files and can I remove them?

[BlackxBird]

Well a 60 gb sdd is bullshit. Buy a new one with about 200 and play ur games on then new one! (Should be about 20 €). Ordinary ur browsers and win constantly produce hidden files! U should download a prgrM which deletes those files, dunno really know one cuz I got 3 different HDDs. A little one for old pictures and old files! A 300 gb for videos\movies and all the game files which I do not use atm. And a 500 gb one for all my games and win7 :3

Btw: what I have noticed is that whwn u go higher than 80 % usage ur pc becomes EXTREMELY slow. Dunno use more than 60 of the hdd with ur system(win7)!!

[Mr_Oujamaflip]

If it's only your boot drive make an image of windows 10 on the other drive and format it?

Also get a 1TB SSD like me.

[Zeltino]

why would anyone need a 1tb ssd

[BlackxBird]

for.... some kind of.... movies....

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[Ubereem]

Btw: what I have noticed is that whwn u go higher than 80 % usage ur pc becomes EXTREMELY slow. Dunno use more than 60 of the hdd with ur system(win7)!!

This does not effect SSD.

[Kadeth]

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

This is a nice little free program for working out what's using all your disk space.

[Molly]

This does not effect modernSSD.

FTFY.
60GB SSD sounds by its size like an older modell and might actually still have that issue.

About the 60GB in general: Due to the way SSDs access/allocate the data, they reserve a hardcoded part of the capacity for themselves, not allowing user access to it. So, whatever capacity is advertized for the SSD, it's normally somewhere between 5-20% less. Keep that in mind.
I believe there was something about block sizes and SSDs meaning that a big file takes more physical space than the size actually would suggest but I can't remember anymore and I am too lazy to re-read it

One last suggestion:
If you're running a legit copy of windows 7... Switch to windows 10. It's smaller by a good margin and at least as good as Windows 7.

[Mr_Oujamaflip]

why would anyone need a 1tb ssd

Cos I don't like loading times on games. And nor do I like waiting for the games to download. Therefore all my games are on one big, epic SSD.

[Ubereem]

FTFY.
60GB SSD sounds by its size like an older modell and might actually still have that issue.

About the 60GB in general: Due to the way SSDs access/allocate the data, they reserve a hardcoded part of the capacity for themselves, not allowing user access to it. So, whatever capacity is advertized for the SSD, it's normally somewhere between 5-20% less. Keep that in mind.
I believe there was something about block sizes and SSDs meaning that a big file takes more physical space than the size actually would suggest but I can't remember anymore and I am too lazy to re-read it

One last suggestion:
If you're running a legit copy of windows 7... Switch to windows 10. It's smaller by a good margin and at least as good as Windows 7.

For real get W10? I heard people were dogging it. Also what about the future when I want to upgrade this pos 60gb SSD?