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hi everyone i cannot play a game just because of my c drive has 0 bytes free of 120 gb .. i dont know why but from couple of days it is decreasing rapidly.. dodnt know why.. any helps .. i close the drive proctection shut down the backup update everything.:)

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Delete everything in folder %temp%.

deleted got 30 mb freee ahgahaharh

Empty your Recycle bin aka the Trash.

 51 mb .. xd

I think you have a virus, I had one like this before, it keeps making invisible files after files to eat space and ultimately killing the harddrive, get a good antivirus and do a boot scan. If that's not the case then it must be there is a huge bad sector on your drive.

If none of the above is the case then type this in cmd: dir /s /b /o:n /ad > f.txt

where f is the name of the file, and it will show what ever is on that particular drive.

Install WinDirStat and take a look at the 'graph' it compiles. https://windirstat.info/ This will show you what file types and in what locations all your space is being used up in. Hopefully you should be able to get it installed within your 30mb freespace! Let us know what results you have.

I suggest also running malwarebytes

You do realize that this is not a technical forum and nobody has to help you? Also while you are laughing someone might be having fun with your credit cards.
Cheerio.  8)

I used CCleaner aka crapcleaner, always been decent to wipe stuff quick.  Otherwise you have some altcoin wallets, maybe large block chains.  If windows hibernate is on it can generate a file the size of your ram. 

download ccleaner and clean up the trashs :)

will try

Use CCleaner to delete all the unnecessary files, then go to your Control Panel and uninstall all the programs on C that you don't use. Then defragment your C drive and wipe the free space. That is the most you can get out of it. Unless it's a virus, then use and AV to get rid of it or Malwarebytes.

Save up for a 1TB hard drive and stop being such a cheapskate :P

this really helpe me i think .. i get 2 gb free space now thnkx bud .. :) and yeah only 2 gb is not good from 120 gb..:(

i assume you have a 2nd harddrive so just install programs to that. or buy a 2nd harddrive  ;D 2TB are pretty cheap these days and even my mum can install them failing that uninstall a game. people assume its something bad the odds are youve just filled it up with games and downloads. try deleting and uninstalling stuff you dont use

i have one 120 gb hard drive and one 250 gb hard drive .. i set 120 gb hdd onyl for windows and 250 only for games.. both of em are 7200rpm of segate..

A lot of games are over 36+gb now....

i know just wanted to buy a new gaming pc .. waiting for some money.. :) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=709270.msg8016242#msg8016242 see this thead and tell me your specs with price

You're in a similar position to me, I seriously recommend saving up $1000 for a good one so you don't disappoint yourself, you'll be able to afford it if you build it yourself, it will take awhile don't get me wrong but I think it will be worth it for sure, you can get a cheaper one but you'll find yourself frustrated at having to deal with FPS drops and stuff all over again depending on the game you play.

if you where in the uk then about $200 but us is so diffrent. id also go a bit more uprange on the cpu i3s are ok for basic games but i5 or i7 are better

Go straight to an i7, good for years to come.  Ebay you can pick up a used 1tb really cheap, or even craigslist.  I got a unopened lg dvd burner, think it says multi writer or something.  Its a month old and still new, was keeping it for a backup though.  Are you in the states?     Get a cheap motherboard that meets your needs, I went with an asus z87-a. 

windirstat


Download it and see what's eating all your free disk space. For people recommending him to buy a 1 TB drive for his primary OS drive, go fuck yourselves.

SSD > HDD. The end.

If SSD drives make that much of a difference in your loading times and games then it's not the computer that's the problem, you go fuck yourself, I hate the idea that people are actually running around and defending badly optimised games.

How is a 20-40gb game badly optimized? The hardware just can not load is so quickly, hence SSDs.
Do you not have enough money to buy a decent SSD, hence you're complaining?

Are you retarded? No, seriously, are you actually retarded? Have you never owned an SSD? Oh, yes, let's optimize this game for this physical limitation of physical spinning disks. Oh, wait, you fucking can't.

Obviously, you MUST have years and years of experience in software optimization, right?


I just figured he was retarded and spouting shit out of his mouth.

hero members bitch fight. solid state is good but if your after a cheap computer theres no point. i have pcs with solid state and normal harddrives in games it dosnt make much difference.

I'm a Senior.
http://s28.postimg.org/lq5fvjlv1/you_failed.png
Also loading every map each time in World of Warcraft doesn't make a difference? Please.
The SSD was not destined to make much difference in games anyways, but in such games (as example above) it really does.

He's the best person for software optimization in the world, he must know what he is talking about.   ::)  :D

An SSD in a dual-core is pretty snappy. A lot more snappy than a quad-core with an HDD.


Hell, doesn't even need to be a large game. Take a look at minecraft for fucks sake. It's a night and day difference.

Well I wasn't really referring to it as a large game, what I meant was a type of game where you have a lot of loading (levels and that).
But yes, you're right even something so simple (yet so complicated) as Minecraft has benefit from an SSD.

so you have a choice 120gb ssd or 3TB hdd i know which id choose and it isnt the ssd. ssd are great but they cost alot per GB

Amen to that. 120gb could probably only fit like 5 games on it today anyway haha.

I have a i7 4770k with a 120gb Samsung ssd and a 2tb Seagate.  SSD makes a world of difference as far as loading time, I boot to windows from a cold boot in about 7 seconds to desktop.  Most games are to large to keep on a ssd unless you have a large one.  I stick the main game I play on the ssd with the OS and the other games on my storage drive.  I don't game much but the ssd loads games way way faster.  In terms of fps it does next to nothing.

Your logic is beyond me.
120gb SSD = $54 http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-2-5-Inch-SV300S37A-120G/dp/B00A1ZTZOG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406284465&sr=8-1&keywords=120gb+ssd
3TB HDD = 107$ http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1406284454&sr=8-3&keywords=3TB
At least when you're comparing products, compare ones in the right price range.

240gb SSD is enough for your main drive (way more than what you actually need).

Obviously you've been away from pricing for a while. 3 TB drive = ~$100-120. 120 GB ssd = ~$60-70.

I'd actually much rather have a 240 GB SSD over a 3 TB drive.


That WD 3 TB drive would be absolute shit to use as a drive. 5400 RPM. It'll take a week to boot your computer with that after everything is loaded.

Also, we didn't even calculate power usage. Less than 1 watt for an SSD vs 10 watts for an hdd. Easily 10x the electricity usage!

Also it is more like 190$ for a good 3TB HDD : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2UWTHE/ref=twister_B00DI12GSM
Which is almost in the price range of a 480gb SSD.
If you get the right software and check the work hours of your HDD, you will see that this 9watt difference is a lot.

When you have 1TB SSD hard drives the same price as 1TB HDD drives then you can convince me but until then you're just full of shit and are trying to attack people into buying your favourite gear, this is as dumb as the AMD and Intel argument.

The reason games load so slowly now on HDD hard drives is because of their ridiculously high polygon and particle count, it's got nothing to do with the drives themselves but of course you know so much more than me and are superior in every way aren't you? :P Sure a 1TB SSD drive could well be worth it in a couple of years time when they get the costs down but yelling at me about how great a 120GB SSD drive is when you'll barely fit 5 games on their on top of your operating system is a fucking joke.

The technology just isn't their yet, it's like trying to convince me blu-ray is worth it because you get a slightly bigger resolution but it costs several times more when I can get HD for a perfectly reasonable price and I'm happy with it.

Your not actually suggesting that when games are well over 36gb's now that that the read/write speed of drives (and latencies) have nothing to do with loading?  A standard 7200rpm drive at 100mb/sec vs a ssd at 350+mb/sec?

It will make a difference but not as much as you're suggesting, games developers have a nasty habit of just putting as much junk and shit as they can without taking into account what it will do with peoples computers, don't get me started on the bloatware DRM that they throw in. Why do you think games like Skyrim work really well compared to other games? It's because they took the time to make sure things work for the most part despite the bugs and glitches in the game, unfortunately there are so few modern examples I can give because of the complete lack of optimisation in games now.

Battlefield 4 is a classic example because they threw tons of physics into that game and lots and lots of particles/polygons so that forces the computer to work a lot harder which is why only high end computers can realistically run it at a comfortable pace and it takes so fucking long to load.

When you compare them to older games however that use much less resources and minecraft as well it's easy to see why these problems exist.

Do you have an ssd drive?  Anything I run on mine I wait for nothing.  Off my storage drive (which is 1tb not 2 I was wrong) takes a bit of time for some things.  Definitely wayyy long to load windows and large games.

Just backup everything and then reinstall your windows operating system I would just suggest backing up only safe and important files.

I honestly don't and I don't think the cost/benefits is worth it, like I said, the larger games take longer to load because they're larger, not just because of the hard drives, maybe in a couple of years when SDD hard drives are as cheap as HDD but not now.

Go read this: http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd

I spotted this awhile ago actually but it explains things well, if I make money I might, just MIGHT spend money for a 1TB SSD to see how things go but I'm not holding my breath simply because of the price currently.

Nothing special. The larger games take longer to load because the hdd's are slow.
Try loading the biggest game that you can find on an HDD then SDD then ram disk.
Cheerio.  ;)

so waht will be your recommendation ? any specs with prices.

Oh, you wanna talk about good HDDs, let's take a look at more enterprise/fast drives. For a proper 600 GB SAS drive, you're looking closer to ~$300.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148617&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

That's actually a damned good deal for that drive. Last year, they were closer to $400 each.


Skyrim as your example? Are you drunk? Look up comparisons in loading times. Also, bloatware DRM? Are you fucking serious. 1 MB file = total bloatware.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Absolutely no idea. Seriously, now physics are using the disk rather than the CPU / video card?

You probably think you mine BTC with storage too, right?



That site kinda proves our point more. The only thing they have going from them is cost / GB which is nullified about after a year anyway (due to differences in power usage).

Which makes this even worse. A 480gb SSD is cheaper than that. People just don't realize this sadly.
I even missed this post. This is hilarious. So tons of physics is the reason why the game loading slowly.  :D

Personal:
PC (HDD): around 2.3min boot time (measured)
Laptop (SSD) - using the same programs, identical almost: 25 seconds boot time.
No, it does not make a difference at all.  ::)

Buy HDD and wait for SSD's to become cheap, the foaming at the mouth fanbois in this thread are being just like anybody else who rants about some new and expensive thing >_<

bluefirecorp, you don't seem to realise that ordinary people aren't going to give a fuck about a few seconds difference, especially with the cost, get it in your skull and read what I'm saying, in fact neither of you and LaudaM are reading what I'm saying so I won't even bother posting responses to you now lol.

This always happens, you get some hype over a new piece of technology that's very expensive at first, people go giddy for it and the intelligent people just wait a year or two for the price to come down and get much better equipment for a cheaper price and better performance, seen it a million times now I think about it.

I built this pc using the 1tb as a main drive originally.  I later ordered the ssd and installed windows on it and the difference truly is night and day.  Its honestly the best upgrade I have done hands down.  I went from a dual core e6750 2.6ghz overclocked to 3.6 to this i7 build and the difference was quite noticeable.  Things like converting movies were ridiculously faster but going from the standard mechanical drive to the ssd, now that obviously was way better!   I suppose it depends on your needs though.  With mining and using a media extender (xbox 360) I reboot on a regular basis and that boot time is drastically reduced!  Updates install in no time along with any applications I run and extracting large files (xbox 360 games@8.5gb) that are in rar files Cruises right through compared to the mechanical drive which averaged about 6 minutes to extract.  I really haven't played any games in which I had much if any wait for loading.

nah i m asking that you just say spend 1000 dollars it worth .. for gaming pc..

i want suggestion ..and dont mess guys. everyone welcome to give his opinions :) thnkx.

Oh yeah, that's the kind of budget you're looking at for a really nice one, you CAN build one for $500 - $600 easily don't get me wrong, but if you want something nice which will last a long time that's the kind of budget you're looking at if you get me.

Almost every build now-a-days uses an SSD. You don't seem to realize that ordinary people don't need more than 200 GB of storage space, and that they DO want their facebook machine to be on as fast as possible.

SSDs aren't new. Solid state media will eventually replace all spinning disks. It's been YEARS now that the SSDs have been out. Honestly, you really have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Seriously, state some of your qualifications that give you a right to talk about this subject as if you know more than actual professionals.

Save for the better processor, like the i7.  Get a budget board that meets your needs, I choose the asus z87-a b/c it was a newer chipset and I didn't need things like the wifi.  Budget ram, shoot for 8gb+ of probably ddr3 1866.  Would definitely recommend the k series i7 so you can later overclock it a bit if you care for that.  Gaming is mostly about the gpu anyways so you would spend the most on the processor and gpu.  Wont need anything drastic on the power supply either.

SSD have been around for years now and are probably the more preferred harc drives. but they can be expensive and are not fitted in the majority of machines it depends what machine you are running. A laptop is very very unlikely to have a SDD.

Laptop uses 2.5" form factor. Most SSDs are 2.5". Laptops are very likely to have a SSD.

Really? I didn't know that. I know mine does but didn't think many laptops would have them. (thanks for pointing that out).

I'm much more of a fan of Hybrid SSD/spindle drives personally, you gain the performance improvement on the day-to-day tasks, without the limitation of low storage space and excessively high costs. Small SSD's are great in laptops though, less to mechanically fail throughout the bumps and bangs of day to day life, although the stock ones do always seem to be on the low end of the available drive size.

Except for the huge failure rates and not much of a performance benefit.

The stats disagree with you.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/150004-seagate-launches-new-hybrid-hard-drive-that-closes-the-ssd-gap-drops-momentus-xt-brand

It's certainly enough of a performance benefit that it made a notable different in day to day use when I introduced them. No failures yet amongst ~100 or so drives, but only 12 months in.

These are no stats, just a few useless graphs.
8 gb cache can't replace a full SDD, no way. This is just marketing, I wanna see tests.

Reinstall windows. Might be that you lost control over your files and updates and blockchains and etc and they just eat all of your space, or a virus. I wouldn't try to gamble the options.

Learn to have a separate partition to personal files and blockchains, so you can have more clue about what is going on if that happens again.

Use ccleaner and run antivirus stuff, and be carefull and trust no one.

No one is disputing that.


The comment was that, for me, SSHD is a perfect trade-off between the limitation of the small volume sizes and high cost of SSD and the lower performance of HDD.

That's what the article is for. Yes it can/is a perfect trade-off for you.
Is it a perfect trade-off overall? No. They suck.
You have no idea what you're talking about. This is a product made by Seagate.

http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/blog-fail-drives-manufacture.jpg
Enjoy.

WTF
Is it real?

Maybe you have blockchain data stored there, did you install bitcoin-qt recently ? How about checking each folder and making an estimation what could be wrong. Why don't you give us more data about drive? How big is it ? If you have 20GB drive than it's obvious that you will need bigger one to get at least 3 movies on it.

Yes, I definitely have time to make up random graphs and get someone to upload it on backblaze.com for me, just to win an argument versus some random on the internet.

This is a good tool to answer the question "where the hell did all my free disk space go?"
https://windirstat.info/

Backup and format.. that will work. I'm 100% sure ;)

Seagate had switched or been sold out to somebody if I recall.  The drive productions had changed just around or after the .11 series drives.  I had always used seagates line and never had issues until I tried to run the .11 series drives in raid.  It was a later well known issue and a real nightmare as my raid setup drives died one (or 2) at a time.  I couldn't rma them fast enough honestly.

My guess is its Karma coming to bite you in the arse like u deserve

Some people would go to that extent that's the problem. LIke I said do a full reinstall and then start again.

I saw your topic title, and realized I was hungry for a fast food burger.

:)

lol..

but its still eating just gave 20 gb more to c after 2 3 restarts its back to 700 mb :( why

Sounds like windows update or something is just eating space. Hmm, maybe you have a corrupted update or something.

^This is more likely the best way, after that install a very reliable antivirus and anti-malaware program.

lose all of my data is not good.