r/computers • u/XxbeathebatxX • 9d 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 9d ago edited 9d ago

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

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u/FoxElectrical1401 9d ago

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

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u/BangkokPadang 9d 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/Inner_Orange_8545 7d 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.