Thinking of getting a larger hard drive for my desktop
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Why? It does everything I need it to do just fine.
It's a firmware issue. Samsung has issues updated firmware that will prevent this problem.
Then I wouldn't trust anything because they have all had issues over the years
Another option and I don't know if it was mentioned, is to add a second HD/SSD. presuming you have the open bay in the computer. You won't need to reinstall your operating system or clone the existing drive to a new one. Apparently, you have two Optical drives and one is currently "D:".
If you add a second HD/SSD you can either remap the current "D" drive to say "F" and your second drive can become "D". it doesn't matter as long as you can remember what it is. Then I point all my user data to the second HD/SSD. So my Documents folder appears as such but it's on, in my case, the "D" drive instead of my "C" drive. All my applications/programs reside on the "C" drive, an SSD for speed.
If you add a second HD/SSD you can either remap the current "D" drive to say "F" and your second drive can become "D". it doesn't matter as long as you can remember what it is. Then I point all my user data to the second HD/SSD. So my Documents folder appears as such but it's on, in my case, the "D" drive instead of my "C" drive. All my applications/programs reside on the "C" drive, an SSD for speed.
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I don't trust them SSDs overall which is why I backup to HDD, but if OEMs are dropping them, well that's a big sign to me.
They are dropping the 990 not all Samsung. We use SSDs to build software with reads a writes lots of files when doing builds and I have never had one fail yet. We have had a few start to throw errors and we replace them before they get bad.
Backup is good no matter what you use.
Why can't I open this file named pagefile.sys to see what's in it or what its for so maybe I can delete it?
pagefile is a system file which cannot/should not be deleted. It is like an overflow virtual RAM should your computer run out of physical RAM.
With that said, you can modify how much page file your system should use or not use it at all if you have plenty of physical RAM.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/reduce-pagefilesys-size-53940.html
With that said, you can modify how much page file your system should use or not use it at all if you have plenty of physical RAM.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/reduce-pagefilesys-size-53940.html
Problem with that is you bring over years and years of garbage. Every so often, whether its Windows, macOS, iOS, or Android, I wipe the drive/storage and "start over". I have important stuff saved.
Wait until you have a hard drive puke and you lose everything. I'm not a fan of enormous storage, preferring multiple, smaller ones.
Something you're going to run into more and more often.
Don't bother with this. You have quite a lot of RAM as I recall so your swap file isn't something to worry about nowadays. It's also "dynamic" in size, growing or shrinking as needed.
You have a LOT of data that's either duplicated or can/should be moved to external storage. If you're not accessing pictures on a weekly basis or so, there's zero need for it to be on the primary drive.
Please step away from the computer and talk to someone who knows what they are doing!
This random system file deleting is just a recipe for a disaster.
Only have 80 GB of important stuff in photos and documents I'd hate to loose, and those are in 4 separate folders for easy access, plus the Favorites list in Windows. What's wrong with bringing over years of garbage when there is twice the space?
Hall?
I’ve got a 6 yo laptop with a 512Gb SSD and it’s a similar situation. With a child and lots of picture and video taking the drive gets consumed pretty quickly. I’ve got a small fleet of WD Passport USB drives to offload photos and videos onto. I try to make sure stuff is copied twice across the drives incase one goes kaput. I bought some of these many years ago. I think some are 1TB and some are 2TB.
External backup to a cloud service would be even better along with a hard copy on an external drive than two hard copies.
You could also look into one of those attached network storage RAID extrernal drive setups that automatically clone for redundancy. They also make large capacity SSD external drives as well but may be pricey.
External backup to a cloud service would be even better along with a hard copy on an external drive than two hard copies.
You could also look into one of those attached network storage RAID extrernal drive setups that automatically clone for redundancy. They also make large capacity SSD external drives as well but may be pricey.
How long did you wait ?
Personally, I've never opened a 33gb file but I'd guess it might take a while !
Look again. You have 'only' 16 GB installed and something running on that system is using almost all of it. That's not normal, nor is a 32 GB pagefile.
16 GB is plenty for a recent PC but your Windows 7 installation isn't making very good use of it.
I didn't wait at all. The popup says it CAN'T be opened because of internet security. So much for W7 being insecure.How long did you wait ?
Personally, I've never opened a 33gb file but I'd guess it might take a while !
