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Where have the storage space gone?

Yugen
By Yugen
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Yesterday, I built my first pc and hooked up a brand new samsung 860 evo 250gb ssd for booting up windows 10 pro and a separate 2tb hdd for extra storage . After finishing all the post pc building procedures: bios settings, windows and drivers installation, etc. which I did while only the ssd is connected, I noticed that from a 242gb free space, I just now have 199gb available! So the question is, WHERE HAVE THAT STORAGE SPACE GONE? Are all those things that I have installed and updated that big to take up around 40gb of my ssd???

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Windows 10 is ~40gb when installed.

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4 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

Windows 10 is ~40gb when installed.

It's actually only 20, but storage sizes are not perfect on drives. There's a techquickie video about why drives are never the correct size in windows.

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Try to delete pre-installed Windows bloatware, check out this guide (it's pretty useful): https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/uninstall-restore-windows-10-builtin-apps

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8 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

It's actually only 20, but storage sizes are not perfect on drives. There's a techquickie video about why drives are never the correct size in windows.

After updates, it can be closer to or over 40gb. 

If you ever need help with a build, read the following before posting: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/3061-build-plan-thread-recommendations-please-read-before-posting/
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