[Technology] Laptop Storage Full

[Cian]

That's a very small HDD nowadays; you can get a 500Gb one (spinny type or, better, a SSD) for not a lot, about £60, and it is very easy to clone your existing one to the new one using an enclosure, put the new one back where the old one was; you then, once formatted, have a 120 Gb drive for off-line storage.

120 is going to be an SSD - fairly common size on new machines. Going back to spinning rust would be a hideous downgrade.

Its also very possibly an m2 gumstick anyway, so a standard enclosure is pointless.

I cope very happily with a 128GB m2 in my main laptop; with a NAS for larger files (and as a Plex server). Most general users don't actually have larger files these days, due to using streaming music and video services.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Gah. 1 minute you beat me by. I would have added you can stream it now though.

Yeah sad times, that joke is already obsolete!

I'm just stuck in 2002

 

[Robinjakarta]

Just delete some porn, that usually frees up a decent chunk of disk

I too was gonna say that but beaten to it al least twice.

 

[Audax]

That's a very small HDD nowadays; you can get a 500Gb one (spinny type or, better, a SSD) for not a lot, about £60, and it is very easy to clone your existing one to the new one using an enclosure, put the new one back where the old one was; you then, once formatted, have a 120 Gb drive for off-line storage.

As said in below quote, it's an SSD, not HDD. Fairly standard on modern laptops.

If you're spending £60 on a 500GB HDD, you may as well flush some £££ notes down the loo while you're at it. I bought a perfectly acceptable 1TB laptop HDD early this year for £40. Originally to replace a failed HDD in my old laptop, then subsequently inserted into a new laptop that had shipped with a 128GB SSD and an empty HDD bay (and I've still got scope to add another SSD in future if I want it).

120 is going to be an SSD - fairly common size on new machines. Going back to spinning rust would be a hideous downgrade.

Doesn't need to be a downgrade - a spinny HDD as an additional drive has a lot going for it still. SSD's are great for getting the OS to load up as fast as possible, and for any other programs that you need to be super snappy. But for general storage, an old HDD is fine and in terms of mass storage on a cost basis is a clear winner still. Many laptops that ship with an SSD fitted will also have an empty HDD bay that you can easily add a second drive into - so you get the best of both worlds. A 128GB SSD doesn't go very far if you're a gamer, so gaming laptops almost always have a spinny drive bay (even if it's empty when bought) so you can have plenty of drive space for installing games. If you don't have a bay in the laptop, external caddies are dirt cheap these days and you just plug into a USB and job done. Or, as you mentioned in the rest of your post that I didn't quote, for those who are storing files (rather than installing big programs) a NAS.

 

[nail-Z]

My old work laptop is fast running out of space. The problem for me is a shit load of Windows installer files which, apparently, shouldn’t be deleted. 44gb of the buggers which take up a large percentage of my 120g drive.

I do have a new laptop but I just don’t get on with it. I’ve only just broken my old one in!

 

[happypig]

My old work laptop is fast running out of space. The problem for me is a shit load of Windows installer files which, apparently, shouldn’t be deleted. 44gb of the buggers which take up a large percentage of my 120g drive.

I do have a new laptop but I just don’t get on with it. I’ve only just broken my old one in!

Just delete them. You'll be ok.

 

[Scoticus]

As said in below quote, it's an SSD, not HDD. Fairly standard on modern laptops.

If you're spending £60 on a 500GB HDD, you may as well flush some £££ notes down the loo while you're at it. I bought a perfectly acceptable 1TB laptop HDD early this year for £40. Originally to replace a failed HDD in my old laptop, then subsequently inserted into a new laptop that had shipped with a 128GB SSD and an empty HDD bay (and I've still got scope to add another SSD in future if I want it).




Doesn't need to be a downgrade - a spinny HDD as an additional drive has a lot going for it still. SSD's are great for getting the OS to load up as fast as possible, and for any other programs that you need to be super snappy. But for general storage, an old HDD is fine and in terms of mass storage on a cost basis is a clear winner still. Many laptops that ship with an SSD fitted will also have an empty HDD bay that you can easily add a second drive into - so you get the best of both worlds. A 128GB SSD doesn't go very far if you're a gamer, so gaming laptops almost always have a spinny drive bay (even if it's empty when bought) so you can have plenty of drive space for installing games. If you don't have a bay in the laptop, external caddies are dirt cheap these days and you just plug into a USB and job done. Or, as you mentioned in the rest of your post that I didn't quote, for those who are storing files (rather than installing big programs) a NAS.

£60 for a 500 Gb SSD; Samsung NVME one around £110

Plenty oif enclosures for M2, both NVME & SATA; around £20 to £30

My SSD is a 1 Tb M2 NVME; around half full.

 

[Audax]

£60 for a 500 Gb SSD; Samsung NVME one around £110

Plenty oif enclosures for M2, both NVME & SATA; around £20 to £30

My SSD is a 1 Tb M2 NVME; around half full.

£60 is fine for an SSD (actually pretty decent price), but your original post didn't make clear which type of drive you were suggesting could be got for £60 - primarily, you called out a HDD and only mentioned SSD as "better yet". Ambiguity sucks .

 

[Scoticus]

£60 is fine for an SSD (actually pretty decent price), but your original post didn't make clear which type of drive you were suggesting could be got for £60 - primarily, you called out a HDD and only mentioned SSD as "better yet". Ambiguity sucks .

OP wasn't clear that original kit was an SSD; I claim immunity due to that circumstance

 

[peterward]

I run windows 10 on a Laptop with 119GB Storage Space and I am getting warnings telling me it's full

When I go into Storage it tells me that 38.4GB is reserved for system files but my own applications and features are using 72GB. But when I look in there (in all drives) the whole lot only adds up to less than 7GB and the largest is 650MB. So I don't have anything to delete?

I've run Storage Space but it didn't find anything

I've searched the whole C: drive for huge/gigantic files and come up with nothing. I've checked to include hidden folders

Any ideas would be appreciated ... would prefer not to download more software, not even sure I can!!

#FreeThemBytes

 

[Audax]

OP wasn't clear that original kit was an SSD; I claim immunity due to that circumstance

Ha ha - fair enough .

The laptop I've got now is my first with an SSD and it's been an absolute eye opener. The speed with which it boots up is immense. Definitely worth having an SSD as the primary drive.

 

[Laptop Ell]

SSDs are such a speed boost compared to the old mechanical drives!

Why does anyone still sell machines without an SSD thesedays?

It's an automatic upgrade to an SSD whenever I get a laptop in for a service or a general speed upgrade. It doesn't cost that much & it's sooooo worth it.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My phone keeps filling up. It's a low spec Omsung, with very little internal memory, but a large external memory card which is virtually empty. I can't find what is causing it. I don't have many apps, certainly no gaming ones. Photos and videos etc are on the external drive. I can't seem to delete the Omsung bloatware I don't use either. The apps I can put on the external drive keep reverting back to the internal storage for no good reason, which is deeply irritating.

 

[PeterOut]

My phone keeps filling up. It's a low spec Omsung, with very little internal memory, but a large external memory card which is virtually empty. I can't find what is causing it. I don't have many apps, certainly no gaming ones. Photos and videos etc are on the external drive. I can't seem to delete the Omsung bloatware I don't use either. The apps I can put on the external drive keep reverting back to the internal storage for no good reason, which is deeply irritating.

See if the link below helps with the apps shifting from external to internal storage -
https://forums.androidcentral.com/ask-question/857609-how-do-i-stop-android-moving-apps-sd-internal-storage-after-update.html

Removing bloatware? Try
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-delete-or-disable-pre-installed-apps-samsung-galaxy-phone
and
https://www.nextpit.com/how-to-uninstall-preinstalled-android-apps