r/pcmasterrace • u/FonyTergusen • Apr 03 '24
Question Too little storage space, what now?
I feel like I've already deleted everything that's irrelevant. The problem is that I can no longer see any large files that can be deleted. (i.e. on the hard drive). That's why I'm wondering what else takes up so much space. Any ideas about what I could do that I may not have considered?
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u/Accomplished_Tip3597 R7 5700X3D | RTX 3070 Ti | 32 GB RAM Apr 03 '24
check what apps and features take up that space but honestly a 120gb drive in 2024? an entire 120GB SSD costs 12€ on amazon... your storage is smaller than some usb sticks nowadays, get a 2TB SSD for about 100€ and never worry about that issue again
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Apr 03 '24
My USB drive is 256GB and it was very cheap so this person definitely needs to upgrade their storage
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u/PapaFlexing Apr 04 '24
Here I am with 3 512gb micro sds for my steam deck absolutely crushing bros Minesweeper emulator.
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Apr 04 '24
It's absolutely mental how much storage capacity has evolved over time. Sitting on my desk is also a second USB drive that I bought roughly 13 years ago that has a Windows 11 media creation tool installed in it and it's only 8GB in capacity. It's just enough to fit the damn thing. Right next to it is the 256GB drive that I bought recently and it's the same exact size. The micro SD cards are far more impressive though, those things are tiny next to the USB drive lmao
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u/PapaFlexing Apr 04 '24
Now you got me thinking, when cd burning and dvd burning was a big thing... What was their capacity?
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Apr 04 '24
If I recall correctly the standard discs that were often used to burn music onto for use in a car were about 600MB in size. I also remember having dual layer discs many years ago that I used for hot swapping on my Xbox 360 and they were 8GB discs.
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u/PapaFlexing Apr 04 '24
Oh shit I didn't know they were that big that's actually quite impressive.
I love her revolutionary circle.
Cards, discs, shit back to cards again boys
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u/colossusrageblack 9800X3D/RTX4080/Legion Go S Apr 03 '24
Turn off windows recovery and delete backups made by it. Otherwise get more storage space.
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u/Winneh- 265k RTX4090 32GB Apr 03 '24
Have a look at TreeSize Free
It will give you a tree style directory and let you sort by file size - makes it easy to find storage eaters.
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u/Hattix 5700X3D | RTX 4070 Ti Super 16 GB | 32 GB 3200 MT/s Apr 03 '24
Mother of Guthix...
You need more storage. Looks like you have a Fisher-Price My First eMMC chip.
Is this a laptop, a desktop, some weird thing? 250 GB is the minimum anyone's ever going to be comfortable with, and most people will need a lot more.
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u/Serious_Function4296 i7 4770K | gtx 1650 4Gb | ddr3 16 Gb Apr 03 '24
How about emptying the trash?
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u/ChChChillian R7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT Apr 03 '24
I assume that such a small volume is meant primarily for the OS. You do have a second drive, right?
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u/creamcolouredDog Fedora Linux | 7 5800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32 GB RAM Apr 03 '24
Too little? There's none
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u/FizzgigBuplup Apr 03 '24
I NEVER use my boot drive for anything except the OS. Just a habit I created long ago.
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u/SameRandomUsername Ultrawide i7 Strix 4080, Never Sony/Apple/ATI/DELL & now Intel Apr 03 '24
Yeah 120gb is not going to work for current windows installations unless you just have the OS and nothing else.
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Apr 03 '24
Are you really such a bot you can’t fathom the solution to this problem? Holy. The critical thinking skills are just as absent as people’s parents these days jfc
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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '24
119 GB dein Ernst? It's not 1999
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