Desktop. I’d have to double check the size.
I think that one of my problems is that, we’ve had this for 4 years and with up to five people using it, I don’t know what all is on the hard drive. I’ve tried to clean it up, but I’m scared to delete too much.
I’m sure there’s stuff that could come off.
I’ve doubled the memory, but it’s the hard drive that’s almost full.
SirKit bought an external hard drive that we call “The Vault”. It is where he downloads information that we would not want lost in a major meltdown of the computer; family and financial info, Clare’s drawings and videos, etc. In the event we needed to get out of the house fast, it’s easily disconnected, and we take it, and all our vital information, with us.
Well, you’re not going to want to just replace the current drive with a larger one, I think. That would require reinstalling Windows and all your programs.
So your options are A. install a second hard drive inside the computer or B. add an external drive. Option A is cheaper and you can get at the data faster. It requires opening up your computer and attatching a new drive, then getting Windows to realize the drive is there. Once that happens, you’re golden. Option B means buying a 100 gig, or more, external drive, that connects to a USB port on your machine. The data access is a bit slower, but it can be more convenient. It’s also likely to be more expensive. But you don’t have to install anything.
Don’t buy less than 100 gig, it’s not worth it for less than that. 250 gig drives are fairly reasonable priced and would give you another couple years...
It’s almost a given that there is a potentially vast harvest of junk files, temp files and frap that can just go away.
Then the easiest thing to do is to get a big USB drive and move the file storage over there. Better yet, get two and use the second as a backup of the first.
If you can get the internal drive down under 50% full and do a defrag... performance will noticeably improve.