Just did some file purging on the laptop....

[Drum Thumper]

Speaking of which, I need to reinstall Win7 sometime. Take it off RAID0 as I honestly don't see a performence increase...

Really? I put mine on RAID0 and my Windows score jumped from 4.9 to 7.2 or thereabouts.

[Collinstheclown]

5.9, dunno what it is without RAID. It takes a good bit long then it should in the POST loading the RAID software or whatever, just gonna remove it and get my second TB.




-CollinstheClown

[x88x]

just gonna remove it and get my second TB.

Oh, are you running RAID1? In that case, no, you won't see any performance difference.

On topic, I was cleaning my cousin's laptop last Thanksgiving, and CCleaner found I think around 15GB of stuff...horrifying, but that 100GB you got is just insane! That had to be mostly the work of those worms. Great idea really, hide stuff in the temporary internet files where people expect to see lots of random files that they don't know what they are.. I later ran Defraggler on my cousin's laptop, and...well, idk how long it actually took, but it ran solid for the 2 days I was there after I started it and judging from the progress it had made, it looked like it was going to take about a week.. ..needless to say, once all the cleanup was done it was like a completely different computer.

[Collinstheclown]

Oh, are you running RAID1? In that case, no, you won't see any performance difference.

No, it's RAID0. I only did it because 1TB drives were on sale and I wanted the performance.




-CollinstheClown

[Oneslowz28]

I need to clarify... about 30gb of that was a few games, old programs and some junk left over from finished reviews and articles.

[DaJe]

This sounds like something I need to try doing. My hard drive space seems to fluctuate way too much for me. It'll go free 30gb from down to 12gb and then recently I somehow ended up with no space free. Sometimes doing a disk cleanup tells me I have like, 60gb of temporary files, or some outrageous number like that, but getting rid of them never actually clears up that much space. I don't know what the hell it is going on with my computer, if it's some sort of massive memory dump thing going on or what. I should look into fixing it some day though...

[Luke122]

Cant be as bad as what I found this week...

300gb of junk on a server.

We were constantly out of space, etc. Suddenly, the server admin and I found 280gb of files that were moved to a new server, and never removed from this one! Between that and dumping temps, we came up with just over 300gb.