Is it ok to only have 500MB of free space?


  1. randomwin7user
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    Is it ok to only have 500MB of free space?


    As the name suggests I want to know if having 500MB of free space is ok.
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  3. Ranger4
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    500 mb of free space is getting fairly low. Once you get down below about 10% of the total HDD size the computer can become very slow.

    It might be a good time to think about a new drive & definitely consider a SSD.
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  4. LMiller7
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    Is it ok to only have 500MB of free space?
    No.

    Generally you should have at least 10% disk space free and you must be well below that. At 500MB free there are quite a number of normal Windows functions that are in danger of failing with unpredictable results.
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  6. AddRAM
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    No, it`s not ok.
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  7. randomwin7user
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    My Hard drive is only 20GB in size and I don't have much software installed
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  8. whs
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    Get a reasonably sized harddrive - e.g. 500GBs.
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  10. randomwin7user
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    I plan to get a 2TB portable hard drive so I can use my existing 500GB external hard drive in my laptop
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