Why are these gigabytes ninja? Because they're invisible.
I recently (2 days ago) received a Lenovo T400 laptop and an Intel 34nm 80GB SSD. I installed the solid state drive, did a clean install of Vista (Home Premium x64) and installed most of the system drivers, including all the critical ones. As I was installing these drivers and doing frequent restarts, I noticed that the hard drive free spaced seemed to be dropping rapidly. For example, I'd download a 10mb self-extracting file for a modem driver, unzip and install it, and after restart the hard drive would have hundreds of megabytes less free space.
Anyways, after I finished installing drivers, I looked around for potential causes of the lost space. Deleting all but the most recent system restore points saved a little bit, but because the system is so new, the gains were not substantial. So I downloaded TreeSize and took a look at the C drive. Including hidden files and system files, 26.6 gigabytes are used (both the pagefile and the hiberfil are above 3GB; is this normal/necessary?). However, right clicking on the drive in my computer shows 33 GB used. Thus, where are the extra 6.4 GB?
Thanks for your help,
Tarrosion
PS. I've heard some disk options, such as superfetch, should be disabled for SSDs. What, if anything, should be changed from the default settings?
PPS. I chose the T400 based on forum members' recommendations. So far, it's been a fantastic machine. Thanks, [H]ard members, for the excellent advice.
I recently (2 days ago) received a Lenovo T400 laptop and an Intel 34nm 80GB SSD. I installed the solid state drive, did a clean install of Vista (Home Premium x64) and installed most of the system drivers, including all the critical ones. As I was installing these drivers and doing frequent restarts, I noticed that the hard drive free spaced seemed to be dropping rapidly. For example, I'd download a 10mb self-extracting file for a modem driver, unzip and install it, and after restart the hard drive would have hundreds of megabytes less free space.
Anyways, after I finished installing drivers, I looked around for potential causes of the lost space. Deleting all but the most recent system restore points saved a little bit, but because the system is so new, the gains were not substantial. So I downloaded TreeSize and took a look at the C drive. Including hidden files and system files, 26.6 gigabytes are used (both the pagefile and the hiberfil are above 3GB; is this normal/necessary?). However, right clicking on the drive in my computer shows 33 GB used. Thus, where are the extra 6.4 GB?
Thanks for your help,
Tarrosion
PS. I've heard some disk options, such as superfetch, should be disabled for SSDs. What, if anything, should be changed from the default settings?
PPS. I chose the T400 based on forum members' recommendations. So far, it's been a fantastic machine. Thanks, [H]ard members, for the excellent advice.