Shadowstorage in Win7

[whs]

I have noticed that Win7 assigned a default of 5% for maximum shadowstorage on my C:. I am wondering whether this is now the Win7 standard allocation. In Vista it used to be a default 15% maximum.
Could somebody check on their system with VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE in elevated command prompt. Thanks.

PS: My C: is 75GB and it resides on an SSD.

 

[Brink]

Hello Wolfgang,

It shows as 15% for my F: drive by default and 1% for my C: drive, but I changed the C: drive to that when turning it off so I believe it was 15% originally as well.

 

[whs]

Thank you very much for the info. Maybe they allocate less for SSDs because of the small nature of them. It does not really matter to me because i take frequent images. I was just curious.

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Mine looks like this: E: is my Vista OS disk and C: is the SSD in question.

 

[zigzag3143]

I have noticed that Win7 assigned a default of 5% for maximum shadowstorage on my C:. I am wondering whether this is now the Win7 standard allocation. In Vista it used to be a default 15% maximum.
Could somebody check on their system with VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE in elevated command prompt. Thanks.

PS: My C: is 75GB and it resides on an SSD.

Hi whs

I believe max is 15% mine in snip


Kenn J++

 

[SIW2]

In Win 7 on computers with HD'S> 64 GB, System Restore can take up to 5 percent of the disk or a maximum of 10 GB of the disk space, whichever is less. On computers with hard drives of < 64 GB , System Restore can take at most 3 percent of the disk space.

At some point it then goes up again to (I think) 10%, then 15%.

 

[whs]

I have noticed that Win7 assigned a default of 5% for maximum shadowstorage on my C:. I am wondering whether this is now the Win7 standard allocation. In Vista it used to be a default 15% maximum.
Could somebody check on their system with VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE in elevated command prompt. Thanks.

PS: My C: is 75GB and it resides on an SSD.

Hi whs

I believe max is 15% mine in snip


Kenn J++

Hi Kenn, I think yours reads 10%. If I add what SIW2 says, there seems to be total confusion. Anything goes.

 

[SIW2]

LOL.

Sorry , not very clear.

The default will be 3% if the drive is under 64gb.

It will be 5% as soon as you go above 64gb.

At some size drive ( I haven't checked) the default goes up again - I think to 10%.

Then at an even larger size drive ( not sure yet what size that is ) , it goes up again to 15%.

 

[whs]

LOL.

Sorry , not very clear.

The default will be 3% if the drive is under 64gb.

It will be 5% as soon as you go above 64gb.

At some size drive ( I haven't checked) the default goes up again - I think to 10%.

Then at an even larger size drive ( not sure yet what size that is ) , it goes up again to 15%.

Hmm, that could be it. My drive is exactly 74.5MB - so it could fall into the 5% category.
Do you have any link where that is described on more detail?