Full Space on SSD even though its not full...?

[Dankcube]

If that makes any sense to you guys. I woke up today, turned on my computer and I had literally ZERO gigabytes left on my ssd even though I did not download or update anything for a fact.

 

I have a 240GB 860 EVO SSD. My computer BSOD a couple days ago with an error that said "driver irql_less_or_not_equal" I am assuming that it has something to do with this. Anybody know uhh how to get my space back or know what the F happened. weirdest thing ive ever seen.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Empty your recycle bun bin. Delete temp files by running disk cleanup.

[Dankcube]

3 hours ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Empty your recycle bun bin. Delete temp files.

I checked ARMORY CRATE and had 2 driver updates realtek and something else. I updated those and restarted my computer and my space has returned, huzzah!

[wall03]

2 minutes ago, Dankcube said:

If that makes any sense to you guys. I woke up today, turned on my computer and I had literally ZERO gigabytes left on my ssd even though I did not download or update anything for a fact.

does steam auto update?

[wall03]

1 minute ago, Dankcube said:

I checked ARMORY CRATE and had 2 driver updates realtek and something else. I updated those and restarted my computer and my space has returned, huzzah!

you should get more storage nonetheless. I'll remind you in a week when it fills up again, and this time, for real

[Kilrah]

Run the disk cleanup wizard, including system files.

[Dankcube]

3 hours ago, wall03 said:

you should get more storage nonetheless. I'll remind you in a week when it fills up again, and this time, for real

yeah been thinking about getting one now since they aren't ridiculously overpriced

[Tristerin]

I wouldnt fill it up much further, degrades performance

[Dankcube]

3 hours ago, wall03 said:

does steam auto update?

yes.

[Dankcube]

3 hours ago, Tristerin said:

I wouldnt fill it up much further, degrades performance

I try keep it above 35gbs of space at least

[WhitetailAni]

In case you are wondering why it says 232GB instead of 240GB:

Windows does math in binary, and does kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes, tebibytes, etc. where 1 mebibyte = 1024 kibibytes, 1 gibibyte = 1024 mebibytes, and so on.

Almost everyone else does math in powers of 10, which is kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc. where 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes, 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes, and so on.

I have one question for them:
WHY??

[WhitetailAni]

43 minutes ago, wall03 said:

you should get more storage nonetheless. I'll remind you in a week when it fills up again, and this time, for real

in comes me with my Crucial M4 128GB

who has to move things to bulk storage every week

[Senzelian]

56 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

I wouldnt fill it up much further, degrades performance

Are you sure about that?

 

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, Senzelian said:

Are you sure about that?

You wrote a 256MB file, try the same with 20GB

 

But yeah for most uses it won't be noticeable.

[Senzelian]

9 hours ago, Kilrah said:

You wrote a 256MB file, try the same with 20GB

 

But yeah for most uses it won't be noticeable.

I agree, it won't be noticeable.

 

I missed the file size entirely, but as you suggested tried it again, but with 32GB.