How do I burn CDs

whs said:

Hibernation uses as much space on your SSD as you have RAM. How small is your SSD. I have a bunch of 60GB SSDs and never ran out of space. Maybe we can help you clean it up.

I have 4024 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory (according to Belarc Advisor Computer Profile) and one 128GB SSD. If I understand you (and the next post) right, hibernate is taking 4GB of space.

Edit: hiberfil.sys is 3,089,680 KB. Say "Goodbye", Hibernate.

The other day someone had 24GB of RAM and was all amazed that his 60GB SSD was completely full. He had 48GBs for the hiberfile and the pagefile. That was easy to fix - no hiberfile and a pagefile of 2GB.

A pagefile of 1GB or 2GB is enough. The only drawback is that you do not get a full memory dump in case of a BSOD - but let's hope that never happens.

I would mention that if you have nearly filled a 128GB SSD you might check out some other data storage strategies. By that I don't mean abandon the SSD (no way!), just to find other places to place things which either are infrequently used or won't benefit much from the improved access time. I'd recommend that you fill in the rest of your system specs so we can give you more precise advice.

Fine-tuning things like swap file and hibernation usage is a good thing overall, but you need to recover more space than those types of things are going to get you. :)

profdlp said:

I would mention that if you have nearly filled a 128GB SSD you might check out some other data storage strategies. By that I don't mean abandon the SSD (no way!),

I would never abandon my SSD. In the first month I owned this thing, while turning around in a parking log, I accidentally smacked the laptop into a cement block (you know, the base of one of those things which holds up lights, or something like that). I can be an abusive owner. I've lost data on laptop's HDDs in the past.

profdlp said:

just to find other places to place things which either are infrequently used or won't benefit much from the improved access time.

You mean, like burning my once frequently used class notes and recordings - but I've finished my class work - to a CD?

profdlp said:

I'd recommend that you fill in the rest of your system specs so we can give you more precise advice.

Fine-tuning things like swap file and hibernation usage is a good thing overall, but you need to recover more space than those types of things are going to get you. :)

Here is a pic of my system specs that I took way back when I first got this thing, but I haven't changed any of the hardware (if there's a better way than this massive screenshot to provide the info, lemme know). Note that my Lectures folder - the one with my class notes (recordings) - is just less than 8GB (after zipping), so I will need to clean more stuff.


And thanks, everyone, for your help.