Does low storage affect the computers performance in gaming?

[MiloshDr]

I heard this somewhere, but I'm not so sure. On my windows 10 computer the storage bar is red instead of blue. For the OS (C: drive) 5% space is left. and for Data (D: Drive) only 2% of space is left.

I heard that its bad if there is little space on C drive, but how little? And it that the same for D drive?

 

[USAFRet]

It can affect, because a really full drive is likely highly fragmented. Leading to increased read times when it needs to find something.

And if that C drive is an SSD...that is REALLY bad.

Care to fill us in on what drives these are?

 

[Herc08]

It can. This means there is so much data on the disk that it has to spin multiple times to find the data it needs. I would also guess that your drives are extremely fragmented which means that data is spread across the disk. If I were you, get an external drive, and transfer it over. You don't want to have a full drive, because that can slow down the computer as a whole, especially if there are a lot of programs.

 

[MiloshDr]

These are hard drives. The C drive is 371GB, and D is 558GB.


I just removed some duplicate files, and I have a ton of those since I don't know how to properly move files around so I just end up installing games over again when its already installed. I found some of them and I have 46.5GB free now on C drive which is 12.5% of free space left now.

I just downloaded auslogics to help get rid of these duplicates. Anyways I do notice the hard drive blinker is always blinking.

 

[Herc08]

That means the drive is constantly reading or writing. I would download IOBit Uninstaller to remove programs. They have a powerful mode which does a scan for anything left over. Also, run Disk Cleanup and get rid of some files. Lastly, run that defrag and move that data closer together.

 

[USAFRet]

WinDirStat can also help in visualizing where your space is going.