Will full storage affects the performance of pc

[Jaspreet_816]

I have 2 hdd 1tb and 500gb. My brother always fill up desktop and both hdd are nearly full instead of windows drive. Will it affect the performance and if yes how can i solve this

 

[V1ctor89]

Generally, the more files you have on the HDD, the harder it gets for the windows to index all of them and keep track of their location. The best thing to do is keep the windows partition clean (windows + programs only). Leave the other files, as movies, music, games etc on the other partitions. Use the better hdd for windows and use the other one for storage (files you don't use very often).

 

[caqde]

Performance of a physical hard drive (non SSD) can be effected by it becoming overly full although not because of the data per se but due to where it is stored on the drive. This is mainly due to the likeliness that free space is scattered about the drive and no longer in a few spots meaning the drive has to bounce around to write even some of the smallest of files instead of just writing it in one shot.

I have found that it is best to make sure that a drive has around 10% free space or more unless the drive is for strictly for large file storage where you could just ensure that the drive fragmentation level is kept to a minimum. For the windows drive always make sure that drive has plenty of space for it to work with the page file to ensure the OS has plenty of space to work with it.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

The partition which contains the Windows swap file (usually that's the same partition where Windows is installed) should always have plenty of free space available for Windows to use for virtual memory. If space gets too low on that partition, performance will be affected.

Free space on other partitions is less important from a performance perspective, but if any drive is nearly full it needs to be replaced with a drive of higher capacity - - that's just common sense.