5GB Hard Disk Space Freed
Wow, I just freed up 5 GB of space, ~3GB of which were duplicate files.
Thanks, Easy Duplicate Finder !
(The mass duplicate files are due to me having used to often format my computer, and just simply copy and paste files to be backed up into separate folders each time)
Besides that, here are some common useless files I found lying around
- essays and presentations I wrote in secondary school
- random MSN Received Files (especially media that I opened once, and never touched again)
- useless chat logs
and a few more I forgot… I started writing this post … 11 months ago, saved it as a draft, and forgot about it. Yes, today I’m cleaning out the trash.
As an added tip to having more hard disk space, often I have friends who are building new systems and ask for my opinion on their configuration. They’re usually on a budget, but I notice something crazy like 2 500GB hard drives. Honestly, nobody needs that much space. Your drive may be exploding with anime and music, but come on, do you actually rewatch all those old shows? Some might be worth keeping, but not all. Burn those to DVDs, delete the rest. Same goes for music – there’s no way you can possibly listen to 500 GB of music, even once through. That will literally take years.
My advice to them is usually to re-evaluate what you are storing, and perhaps you can exchange that spare hard disk for better system performance.
Personally the biggest space I’ve ever had is a 250GB drive, but I donated that to my family’s HTPC about a year ago and have since been surviving fine on 80GB (30GB of which is for my mac partition) + 120GB. I install lots of games (and games these days take like 5GB or more), yet still have free space remaining.
I’ll have to admit that it’s getting tight thanks to games, but instead of whoring 1TB all to myself, I’ll be getting a new external drive to act as storage and backup for my whole family. I need somewhere to store all those Steam backup files instead of having to constantly redownload the games, and our HTPC is slowly reaching it’s limit for recorded TV. oh and HD recordings are coming up…
