When is it time to upgrade your SSD that holds your OS?

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I built this computer about 2 or 3 years ago, strickly for gaming mostly.
When I built it I purchased a 240gb SSD, and put my OS (windows 7) on it, and bought another 1TB HD for all my steam games. I ended up buying another 2 TB HD and that's what currently plugged in for my storage space.

I'm down to 28 mb on my SSD, and I'm wondering if it's normal for needing to eventually upgrade the size of SSD that holds your Operating System, or perhaps it's because maybe I installed something on it that is taking up space?

My main question is if it is normal to eventually have to upgrade your HD that holds your OS on, given that it is only 240 gb and its been a number of years since having it. All of this other information below may be helpful or not, but I thought It might help answer some questions that might be asked.


Things I've noticed that are on my SSD:
Anti virus (Eset NOD32)
ASUS folder (Mobo is ASUS)
Intel folder (CPU)
Internet Explorer
Logittech (mouse)
Razer (keyboard)
Origin folder (origin)
Steam
Ubisoft

Obviously more stuff, but won't include all of it. Whenever I install games on Steam, or origin it's being installed onto one of my HD's, not my SSD but I imagine that a small amount of space would be taken off of my SSD considering that steam and origin (client?) is installed on my SSD, I imagine this is normal, correct me if I'm mistaken.

I have about 200 games on steam, plus games from blizzard- SC2, Diablo 2, Overwatch
Only one game on Origin, Battlefield 1

This may all be extra stuff you guys don't need to read, but I'm thinking because of Updates to Windows 7, peripheral computer accessories like keyboards, mouse, ect... and all that other stuff that it is infact normal that I should upgrade my SSD, but I would like to feedback before I invest in a larger SSD, mainly because maybe I could get away without having to upgrade and save a lot of money.

I have ran disk defrag and disk cleanup multiple times, and it seems like it may be time now to upgrade.
Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
 
Depends on your usage pattern really. I can fit all of what I need in a 500G space so that's the sweet spot for the moment, although I offload bulk storage to a dedicated 12TB fileserver. 250/256 GB is a bit cramped when trying to add multiple games onto that drive as well.

As time moves on and software becomes larger, whether it's SSD or HDD there's a requirement for more storage space, kind of as you've seen on the 1TB->2TB HDD side. The same holds true for the SSD side.

I'd jump on a decent deal or upgrade on black friday. The 500G Samsung drives are coming down in price, recently around ~$130 on SATA. It really depends on how you use the PC and what kind of budget you have in mind.
 
I should also note that it's infact a 250 GB SSD, but you're answer has pretty much summed up what I was expecting to hear.
I live in Canada so I expect the price will be higher, but perhaps you are right and it's just time to upgrade that SSD.

The thing is, that I don't really want any games to be installed onto my SSD, I'm pretty happy with the performance right now.
I should check the prices, I usually use Newegg.ca
So perhaps I'll take a look and try to snag a deal.
 
Hmm, you can use something like Windirstat to see what's eating up the space on your drive.

https://windirstat.net/

250G is pretty livable if you are installing everything on your mechanical HDD, I'd be curious what's eating up the rest of the space.
 
Wow, Just looked and I can get a 500GB SSD for $200.00 not bad https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147373


I will look at that link you just posted tho first.

So I downloaded and ran that program, IF I am reading it correctly it shows the following:

Windows 76% usuage
Users 11%
Program Data 5%
and then other things that are like 1% or under.

So I Clicked on Windows,

It's got a readout of the following:

Temp 71.1
Logs 11
winsxs 10
a few others less then 1%

I'm assuming temp stands for Temp files,, which should be cleared out every so often, which I've done in the past on occasion.
or so I thought, I'm going to try to delete Temp files, if anyone has a straight forward way of doing that, and would like to share I'd appreciate it, however I will look now how to do it.
I may have done it incorrectly in the past but will try again and see what happens.

Well I deleted Temp files, there were a lot of them but only up to 519mb free space now, still better than before.

I ran the WinDirStat program again, and it's still reading 71.1% for Temp
I clicked on Temp and it has a sub folder reading 100% for <files>
so perhaps they arn't deleted fully? I emptied my recycle bin prior to running the program a second time, so not sure what's going on there.

I deleted Temp files this way below, and when I do it again it shows that they are infact deleted, however when I go into the Local Disk C: manually....../Windows/Temp
there are still a bunch of temp files, I am wondering if it is safe to delete all those files. I wont do it just yet.

But here is how I deleted the temp files previously mentioned the first time

Windowskey + R
%temp% OK
Ctrl +A
Delete
Empty recycle bin.

For anyone in the future, who may be reading this thread for a similar problem...

I will tell you what I've done, because now I have a massive 112 GB extra space on my SSD and I haven't even removed all of the files yet.

I had to manually remove files from my windows/temp folder, only like 9000 files or so LOL. There is still more files that I could have erased; but I stopped there.

Apparently using Disk Cleanup Tool doesn't completly remove Temp files.

So I pretty much Clicked:

Computer
Local Disk C:
Windows
Scrolled down and found (Temp)
And then Deleted most of the files that were labeled (file) under the (Type) Colume
Then I went to the recycle bin, and emptied it, restarted computer and now I have 112GB on my C:

Pretty awesome.

There are still a lot of files labled TMP file, Text document, SQM file, ect.
But I didn't erase those just to be safe, to be honest I was a little hesitant to erase what I did, but It seems fine so erase at your own risk. So far though, everything seems to be working
and I'm glad I don't need to buy another SSD.
So hopefully this helps someone in the future, it worked for me.
 
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The Crucial MX300 drives should be a bit cheaper than the Samsung drives. It's slightly slower in certain areas, but for most people it's not noticeable.
 
I been thinking of switching out my ssd also. But, it won't be till after the Jan. 2018. My OCZ Vertex 4 (128gb) is 5 years old. And by what the OCZ SSD Utility program says, that my drive is 92% healthy still. My nephew lost his OCZ Vertex 3 (128gb) 2 weeks ago. We bought the drives on the same day, over 5 years ago. But I think he or his wife have been defragging the drive. He kind of hesitated when I asked him about it. Hr didn't really know.
 
AlienMenace said:
I been thinking of switching out my ssd also. But, it won't be till after the Jan. 2018. My OCZ Vertex 4 (128gb) is 5 years old. And by what the OCZ SSD Utility program says, that my drive is 92% healthy still. My nephew lost his OCZ Vertex 3 (128gb) 2 weeks ago. We bought the drives on the same day, over 5 years ago. But I think he or his wife have been defragging the drive. He kind of hesitated when I asked him about it. Hr didn't really know.
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Not all hardware is created equally. Even if it is the same product performance varies, for the better or the worst. I guess he lost the silicon lottery.
 
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