SSD Shrinking?????

[mjakachira]

My SSD's size keeps shrinking and i can't figure out why. i Have two other drives for games, music and other data and manually change locations when i download stuff but, i feel I must have missed something because lately its been getting smaller and smaller. Any advice on what I should do by the way its a Vertex 2 120GB and after installing windows 7 64bit, updates and some other small windows files its now at 67.1 gb.

 

[mgrzTX]

My SSD's size keeps shrinking and i can't figure out why. i Have two other drives for games, music and other data and manually change locations when i download stuff but, i feel I must have missed something because lately its been getting smaller and smaller. Any advice on what I should do by the way its a Vertex 2 120GB and after installing windows 7 64bit, updates and some other small windows files its now at 67.1 gb.

Is the max size of your SSD shrinking or just the free space? If it's the free space you might be copying files manually and not actually deleting the old files. Also check the windows Temp files they could be ballooning up. I use WinDirStat to keep track of my space, although mainly because it looks cool, but it also provides an easy way to check what's on your SSD since you need to keep the space free.

http://windirstat.info/

 

[mark_k]

Take a look at this thread it has a lot of tips for setting up aSSD for OS only and moving files to the HHD.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261541-32-move-documents-windows