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Hello, so is keeping SSD only with few  GB's remaining of free space is fine? Won't it start working slowly, freezing etc.. ?

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Hello, so is keeping SSD only with few  GB's remaining of free space is fine? Won't it start working slowly, freezing etc.. ?

Should not give you any problems myself never had an ssd but i worked with people with ssd's they never had problems even if there was just a little space left

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its not a HDD, they dont become slow when they begin to fill

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I've never had any problems, but you're not supposed to go below 10% free space.

Then I suppose I need a new one... My 64GB SSD usually ranges from ~100 MB to a couple of KB's of free space these days. Something is going wrong, but I can't seem to find the solution to get rid of some giant files that mustn't be removed...

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Then I suppose I need a new one... My 64GB SSD usually ranges from ~100 MB to a couple of KB's of free space these days. Something is going wrong, but I can't seem to find the solution to get rid of some giant files that mustn't be removed...

Yeah, I'm stuck with a 60GB SSD. I was good with the space for a while but now I've lost it.

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Hello, so is keeping SSD only with few  GB's remaining of free space is fine? Won't it start working slowly, freezing etc.. ?

 

 

Hey JuztBe,
 
Modern SSDs already have reserved space for caching to which you don't have access. But I would still recommend leaving some space free in order not to have drops in performance. 10% free sounds about right for you not to notice any changes in performance. 
 
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