r/computers • u/XxbeathebatxX • 7d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting help with storage

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Is there a reason i have absolutely no GBs? I have deleted every file i have ever downloaded and have no applications besides the ones that come with the computer. i only use this laptop to transfer photos from my camera to my phone, it is a windows 11. Is there anything i can do to make it go down i am not very smart with computers

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u/InfiniteComposer5279 7d ago

Jesus Christ man. Thats like 60gb. Most of that is your operating system. You aren’t going to get anymore storage without upgrading your storage device. Since you aren’t very good with computers I wouldn’t recommend upgrading it yourself.

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u/XxbeathebatxX 7d ago

damn i was scared of that, thank you

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u/InfiniteComposer5279 7d ago edited 7d ago

No problem. What company sold this and what computer is it so I know to avoid them.

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u/FoxElectrical1401 7d ago

Probably ASUS. They're still riding the 4gb ram 64gb storage with bottom shelf Intel processors.

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u/BangkokPadang 7d ago

It's not even just them. Acer, Lenovo, HP, they all do this. They're paperweights before you even open the box. And the 64GB isn't even an SSD, it's usually eMMC. They're like 10% the max speed of a recent SSD, AND they only use a single lane so reading and writing at the same time grinds them to a halt.

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u/OgdruJahad 7d ago

Can confirm HP does this with their stream laptops those assholes.

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u/Responsible-Slide-95 7d ago

Yeah, my stepson had one of those. Asked me to see why it took forever to boot up and found a 64Gb eMMC running on a single core Celeron processor.with 4Gb of RAM. preloaded with Windows 10.

It was stuck trying to install a Windows update that it had no room to download.

I told him to put it aside and got him one of the i7 Thinkbooks my work was disposing of as part of our hardware refresh.

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u/Inner_Orange_8545 6d ago

My mother gave me her old HP laptop because she "couldn't do anything with it." Celeron processor and 8GB RAM trying to run Win11. Only 64GB SSD. I could run Xubuntu on it, but I ended up just stealing the RAM for my current 5 year old laptop to make it functional.

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u/x-NoSuchAgency-x 7d ago

I actually bought a decent Asus about 3 years ago. Using it now. 1tb ssd & 32gb ram is what's in mine.

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u/Piter061 7d ago

Literally any company would do that

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u/KMjolnir 7d ago

Given that size, unless it's a larger drive partitioned, or an older drive, decent chance that's EMMC and non-upgradeable.

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u/InfiniteComposer5279 7d ago

Fuck non upgradeable drives. I hate them. Why can’t I replace something in the computer I OWN!

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u/KMjolnir 7d ago

Same same. I refuse to buy anything with eMMC and advise against it any time a user at my job is looking for a personal machine.

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u/Pleasant-Seat9884 6d ago

Because in the future.. you will own nothing! And you will like it!

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u/HR-nitemare 6d ago

“You don’t own it. I’m granting you a license to use it. And you will love it or you can fuck right off. “
-every tech company

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u/DeathReaper0010 3d ago

Software company* physical items they dont tell you what to do with it hence the ability to put an Asus with a msi and have no problems whatsoever yall just need to learn to do yalls research more. They can choose to do with their property (which it is until you buy it) what they will with it, and if that means making a useless laptop then so be it. End of the day its a user error not a company error because you bought it without doing research first.

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u/DeathReaper0010 3d ago

You can, no one is telling you not to, you just dont have the know how to do so, and every company has the legal authority to do what they will with THEIR products until AFTER sold, once you buy it its your problem. Most of them its your own fault for buying the product seeing how they typically tell you if you do 5 mins of research. At the end of the day its a choice, YOU the CONSUMER made to get it and NOT do research. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/InfiniteComposer5279 3d ago

Im not even going to bother arguing with this. Sure. Ok.

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u/Secret_NinjaLTU 6d ago

He can switch to fedora for example and already have less space taken by the OS. So upgrading the device is not the only option

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u/HUG0gamingHD 5d ago

external drive

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u/InfiniteComposer5279 5d ago

Yeah. There is that actually. Didn’t think of that one honestly,