Oh no! Your HDD is almost full!What do you do?
start wiztree and complain there is nothing i want to delete
>>107456698Buy a new HDD.
sit in the corner and cry
>>107456735I do this at least once a month. It's an hopelessly wishful ritual
>>107456698 I don't fret until Windows starts to give me errors about not having enough free space to do file operations. This isn't Linux so running out of space isn't some huge catastrophy.
>>107456698buy a 2TB SSD
>>107456698Format and install gentoo
>>107456698Stop jerking off to Chinese cartoons.
>>107456698>pagefile.sys is fucking massive>look up to see what can be done about shrinking it>"don't change it from letting windows decide how big it gets or your computer will explode!">set it to the minimum recommended size and restart my computer>nothing extreme happens, maybe a slight boost in speed
>>107456698Nothing?
>>107456698I just open filelight and start clearing out data.
>>107457684Why would anything extreme happen on a fresh boot where nothing is using memory
>>107457684If you set it smaller than your total installed RAM (plus a little extra overhead) you might have your PC occasionally fail to wake from sleep and need to be rebooted. That's pretty much it.
>>107456698I recommend you delete your troon porn to free up some space
>>107456698Windirstat check out if the hibernation or pagefile is filling up your drive.
Windirstat or daisydisk. Delete stuff I don't intend to watch/game/use. If there is still not enough space I just buy a new drive.
>>107456698All the useless shit goes here.
>>107456698ive never had this problem i avoided it by spending $6000 on storage
>>107456698Check what's up with windirstat and notice fucking gigantic Python packages for stuff I used only twicehidden deeply nested in my machine.
>>107456698>think about finishing the last 20% of that 100gb game i played 6month aago>boot up league instead
>>107456698delete 3GB
>>107456698I store all my kemono porn on my phone to avoid this.
For some reason I had a 50 GB backup of the default files that came with Miyoo Mini Plus. At this point I'm just hoarding shit subconsciously.
>>107458668>*corrupts your data*
finally start oooooorganizing and deleting shitmake 100 gb of progress and then say "alright cool do this again in 6 months"
>>107456698idk, what should I do? i
>>107458968
>>107456698delete the porn vids i didn't like
>>107456698time to delete those mp4 I made to post on /gif/ that I never got around to posting
>>107459117every little bit helpsafter coming by this thread ive deleted good 40 gigs of shit by just deleting these kinds of files
>>107456698set up LVM oh wait a minute i forgot this is a nigger os for retarded niggers never mind
>>107457590im still working on my first 2 mortgages
don't forget to use diskcleanup to get rid of old win updates and linux bros clean up any old stacked kernels you may have been collecting taking up space
>>107456698copy a block of hoarded junk over to an even, bigger slower HDDif big slow HDD is full, buy anotherif drive bays are full, remove all the big drives and put them all in a new NAS(i have an entire shelf for NASes)if shelf gets full, buy another shelf
>>107456698>delete everything in Downloads>34.8GB free
i have an external hard drive bayi swap them around every now and then15 tb full so far another 18 or so tb worth of drives freemajority of it is uncompressed video and music
>>107456698Install Linux, format it with Btrfs, and enable transparent zst compression.
>>107458855lol
>>107458968>RAID0kek
>>10745956575,000 hours and counting.
>>107459608How many drives.
>>10745964560
Make my own LFS distro. It's the final solution to the bloat question.
buy another hard drive
>>107456698Load up Space Sniffer
>>107456698compact.exe /compactos:always
>>1074596454x 8TB WD RedsThis is my 3rd RAID0 build, I've been using RAID0 since early 2000s and I have never had a single drive failure.I only ever used WD for my RAIDs, my first one being a pair of PATA WD 36GB Velociraptors. Shit was so cash.I remember driving for an entire day buying out the last remaining pre flood price inflations 2TBs WDs from all the locals Frys and Best Buys. $60 for each drive, these prices have never returned.That 8TB RAID0 build lasted me about 7 years till around 2015. Ironically, I recently tried using one of those 2TB drives, and it was dead in the water. I stress all my HDDs for a 3-7 days before I ever put them into production.
>>107456698>look around for stuff I care about>copy into an external storage>wipe every single thing on main memoryIf I don't remember it, it's junk dataInto the trash it goes
>>107457684Because of the way windows allocates memory setting the pagefile to nothing or 800mb is essentially like taking your actual ram and dividing it by 1/3rd. You'll get out of memory type errors at like 18gb out of 32gb in not so extreme cases (looking at you chrome).
>delete my entire porn folder and start anew
>>107459867why would you gamble like this
>>107458858Works for me.
>>107456698Delete a game I don't play anymore, usually DotA 2 (I re-download it like 4 times a year)Boom80 GB free
>>107456698>106GBstop being poor
>>107459953because ive had zero raid0 failures over the past ~22 years in machines that have 99% uptime.i also backup the most critical data.
Buy a bigger one.
>>107456698Say im done seeding and delete the oldest 100 movies/shows off my watched folder.
>>107456698time for file compression
>>107461041good lad
>>107457563>boot up FFXIV>forget I have 200MB of free space>XIV writes your config to disk in my documents, if there's no space for one item, it wipes your entire config>have to restore server backup>mfw backup is from 2021In a way. I hate developers. I hate everyone.If my config is large enough to fit in the first instance. It should be big enough to play the game until the next patch hits.
>>107458855>For some reason I had a 50 GB backup of the default files that came with Miyoo Mini Plus. At this point I'm just hoarding shit subconsciously.Nah man.I was in your position once. I looked at a HDD in spacesniffer, said why the fuck do I have 2 large images of backups for the RGB30.Next again week? Developers of the rockchip memeos had a melty and removed the images.One day you'll need that image. Give it time. Backups are never a waste of space.
>>107456698>>107456735>106GB>Windows11Of course it is. That's pretty much just the OS
>>107461210File system level compression is underrrated.Not windows default ntfs compression>https://github.com/Freaky/Compactor
>>107462402>screenshot is of Windows 10lintroons in charge of identify operating systems
>>107456698Delete C:\Windows\system32You pc is most likely fully 64-bit and you don't need that old cruft, unless you run some very old application coded in vb6 and such. If the need arises, you can still download it later from the Microsoft website.
>>107462734
>>107462734even though system32 is where all the 64 bit binaries are
I don't hoard data, only save my own projects which won't even take 10TB in a life time.GET HELP
>>107462906What about your photos and videos? My 2 week vacations are like 500gb.
>>107456698Throw my PC in the garbage. I only need my phone and AI.
>>107462906>I don't hoard dataYou're not a man.
>>107456698Have more than 100GB because it's not 2002 anymore?
>>107462918>>107462943I have brain that stores memorable moments in life, seriously get help.
>>107463091imagine having hobbies
>>107458733How many TB did that get you?
>>107463152>hoarding dvix torrents from 2003, porn slop and video gayms>hobbyYou could just delete some useless garbage and reuse 1-2TB drivers for long you know?
>>107463198i'm talking about your own photos and videos. Some stupid movies or oneme can be redownloaded at any time.
why 4096x2160 images when comfy 1920 x 1080 is all you need
>>107463226I see no point in storing my photos, it's useless addiction of this century.
>>107456698Upload most of it to S3 because I am a normal, well-rounded IT professional.
>>107463370>it's useless addiction of this century.Of the last 3 centuries
>>107456698compress+defrag
>>107456698Delete installed games that you're not currently playing. I just cleared over 400 gigs.>>107456738>HDDBro, what century is this? I mean, it's fine to keep tons of crap and speed is unimportant. But the system disk must be an SSD, the performance difference is insane.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D2HPRGlkXs
Oh I know just what to do.
>>107456698>Oh no! Your HDD is almost full!>What do you do?Shove another hard drive into my optiplex's case until the stock 350w power supply screams in pain over all the stuff it has to spin up when I power the machine on.
>>107456698I simply let go.
>>107463719
>>107456698delete the jew folder.
>>107458968>raid0you should start praying
Delete shit and compress my reaction image folder using AI to identify the biggest efficient gain
>>107462369It's all just trash ROMs anyway. I have my own little ROM stash. There aren't any system files probably because this came out of the default SD card.
>>107456698throw it away and get a new computer. I don't save anything or move anything on to the new one. I just start over.
>>107462453>Freakyooh
>>107456698cleanmgr.msc/thread
>>107456698Store the latest data on an external hard drive and delete a few big barely used files.
>Be me>Decide to clean up my W10 secondary PC.>Remove every single personnal file.>Uninstall every single program except for Avast, Brave and Mozilla.>63.6GB free out of 115GB.>Start SpaceSniffer.>It's all fucking Windows.How giganormous is that thing? Would switching to Linux Mint be the same shitshow?
>>107462544Aw shit. Same deal though. I remember my windows 10 install made my 150GB OS SSD near unusable because between system files and appdata shenanigans it was over 100GB
>>107468164"it" isnt, thats all virtual memorywindows doesnt do memory compression very well, so if youre out of ram youre out of luck
>>107456698>randomly look at drive>only 1gb left>panic>remember I have +100 firefox tabs open>close everything, look again>back to a healthy 10gbeverytime
>>107456698Too lazy to do a proper cleanup, so I back up the few things I need to on jewgle drive, create a wangblows USB installer with Rufus, run diskpart clean on my internal drive the moment I boot into it, then do a clean install of windowsThen I enjoy a fresh system
How reliable is ZFS expansion? I'd rather just replace my 14tb disks with 20+ ones but that's not very viable in this economy.
>>107456698Delete the porn.
>>107469091Isn't this an automatic invitation to driver installation and update festival?
>>107456698compact.exe time
>>107469251Never!
tfw
>>107470080link your favorite porn folder
>>107469668Last time I did a clean reinstall the only driver I had to update manually was for my GPU (Windows actually installs a GPU driver automatically but it's usually not the latest one)Updates for Windows itself are done automatically and it only takes a few minutes if you've installed from an up to date ISO (MS releases one every month, though W10 ones end at Oct 2025 because after that the OS is on extended security updates. Also, LTSC releases only have one ISO on release and that's it, they don't get monthly ISOs containing security updates up to that point so you'll have to update an LTSC version after installing)
buy another ssd, shit ain't expensive
>>107463744see >>107460332
>IQ above 70Buy more storage.>IQ of 70 or belowCry on 4chan about everything being "unoptimized".
>>107456698i start worrying when there's less than 200MB
>>107463469old photos had some value and meaning to those that owned them. Kodak ruined that, and ever since some people have felt the compulsion to make photos of every moment that could have otherwise been meaningful and social media has grown this group a thousandfold. despite collodion plates possibly containing more data than 500GB, since it's silver grain is on literally atomic scale, having 500 gigs of digital pics from a 2 week holiday, no matter what camera, is a compulsion, an addiction. Before Kodak, making photos actually required preparation and some idea beforehand of what you wanted to capture. few people in the 1800s had more than a half dozen photo's, and even that would be much.
>>107456698install gentoo then download more disks
step 1: empty recycle binstep 2: delete my OBS recording folderstep 3: check porn folders for oversized .zip files I forgot to deletestep 4: clean desktopstep 5: buy more storage
>>107456698delete 500gb of skyrim saves
>>107475393>porn folders>.zip filestranime pedo
>>107456698I have a nas so I just move shit there
I need portable hard drive recommendations. Can you gentlemen help a fellow out?
>>107456698First I would set my downloads to go another drive if I only had 106GB of storage.I would uninstall and reinstall programs installed on the boot drive on another drive. You can find a 500GB sata sdd for under 50 bucks on ebay. As a boot drive this more than adequate size wise.
>>107458975>>107459565>>107463744>>107460332I have raid0 on my nas, but I have a usb thumb drive plugged into my nas backing it up like twice a month. should I be worried?
>>107458668>>107458858>>107459976i have ocd, but with that comes data hoarding ocd, that has been my solution, i just "store" shit in external 5TB hard drive, and they eventualy die, but i don't care at that point.i'm just tricking myself into thinking i'm not realy deleting the file.
>>107456698Delete Local Disk (C:) and start again. It's all just memes. All my real files are on github.
>>107456698Delete my 100gb of gay porn.
>>107456698Buy another one.
my JAV folder alone is 500gb
>>107456698Happens a couple times a week for me, I just dump a bunch of recorded shows to my server and the issue's fixed
>>107475324nice melty over anon taking pictures and saving them
>>107475718how small is that raid that a single usb stick is enough for a backup?
>>107476279both the nas and the WD USB hard drive are nominally 4 tb, but I think I only use around 2 tb. my laptop ssd is 512gb I should have said USB hard drive, it's one of those spinning disks that you can put in your pocket
steam is usually the culprit. it loves leaving temp files everywhere. last time i cleared the temp shit off of steam it got me like 300gb freed up
>>107476339why would I put a spinning disk in my pocket?
>>107476368if you need to move files
>>107476368i have one that i use for movieseveryones got smart tvs now anyway, just plug it in the side and g2g to watch 1970s animal porn or the extended edition of Minions VIII or w/e
>>107458668>chinkshit "1TB" flash drive that's really only 1GB and overwrites data when it goes over that
>>107458968>RAID 0someone post the screencap
>>107456698Delete all those VNs you downloaded that you're never gonna read.
>>107458968>>107476438
>>107477295anon my various prototype builds of furry shota life sims and rpgmaker diaper play games are all VERY RARE and might be lost to time entirely if i delete them>>107477313this screencap remains funny but it was a different time. by 2017 people shouldnt have been that dumb but this kind of nonsense (with similar LOL OWNED results) was being done all over the place in the early '10s
