SSD Space issues

[ChronicSilence]

Hey,

I have a Crucial M4 128GB SSD, and I'm having OS (Windows 7 x64) issues with the space on it. Simply put, it's telling me that "8.17GB free of 119GB", but I cannot for the life of me figure out what is filling the space. When I open the drive browser, highlight all the directories, and right click -> properties, it tells me that the "space on disk" is 85GB. So, my question is, where is this extra 25GB being used, and can I get rid of it?

Please see here for example screenshots.

Thanks in advance!

 

[jhansman]

Swapfile, System Restore, temp files, etc. This program can give you a graphical picture of your disk use: http://www.foldersizes.com/?gclid=CITchM3I368CFQ6Ehwod6h20_A. Also, there are some good tips on this forum for moving certain data off your SSD and locating it on another drive without giving up much in performance.

 

[kalrith]

This will tell you what's taking up all that space: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

It's a free program that will scan your drive and sort it in order from largest to smallest folders/files.

 

[ChronicSilence]

Heh, found the problem. 13GB page file, 12GB hibernation file. Why on earth would those be so massive? This machine has 16GB of RAM, I can't imagine anything that would possibly need an extra 13GB in a page file. Any thoughts?

 

[Skiprudder]

WinDirStat is a really nice tool. You can short by filesize and see where exactly the problem is. And it's free!
http://windirstat.info/

Hey,

I have a Crucial M4 128GB SSD, and I'm having OS (Windows 7 x64) issues with the space on it. Simply put, it's telling me that "8.17GB free of 119GB", but I cannot for the life of me figure out what is filling the space. When I open the drive browser, highlight all the directories, and right click -> properties, it tells me that the "space on disk" is 85GB. So, my question is, where is this extra 25GB being used, and can I get rid of it?

Please see here for example screenshots.

Thanks in advance!

 

[kalrith]

Heh, found the problem. 13GB page file, 12GB hibernation file. Why on earth would those be so massive? This machine has 16GB of RAM, I can't imagine anything that would possibly need an extra 13GB in a page file. Any thoughts?

I have 8GB of RAM and never get into my paging file. However, there are some programs that require a paging file. Therefore, I set my paging file to a minimum and maximum of 1000 kb. That will be plenty for programs that require it but will also free up a lot of space.

I'm not sure about the hibernation file. Maybe it's large because you have so much RAM and it has to store all of that data in a file in order to power down.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Open an elevated command prompt and type "powercfg -h off" to disable Hibernation, and remove the hiberfil.sys file.

 

[heymrdj]

If you have hibernate enabled it requires a file be there big enough for all the RAM to be stored into, so the more ram the bigger the hibernation file. Sadly the file can't be moved either. I just end up sleeping my system when I need to get back to something later, but in my typical workflow, having a hibernation file was still absolutely required for me. So I just ate the 16GB that it takes up (16GB of RAM in my system). It's a 256GB SSD so it's not too bad, still really wish I had a 512GB SSD though.