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Reserved Space

  • January 29, 2019 at 9:05 pm

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  • January 29, 2019 at 10:56 pm

    #2020523

    Heh... but "diskspace is cheap", right? (One of my least favorite justifications for not fixing bad code or process).

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  • January 30, 2019 at 3:00 am

    #2020532

    I don't have an issue with reserving space for updates. Provided the space consumed remains constant(not counting user data) over the lifetime of the product no matter how many mandatory updates you install.

  • January 30, 2019 at 6:20 am

    #2020553

    Regarding the last paragraph of the post:

    I know modern Android helps me when I'm low on space, and would like to see that in Windows.


    Just this weekend I used the Free up space now option under Storage settings in Windows 10.  That's a step in the right direction.

    Here is a link that talks about it. Link to HowToGeek

    I haven't heard of reserving space with dummy files before today.  (Granted, I'm still new at this.)  That's an interesting idea if admin that handles storage isn't around to assist.

  • January 30, 2019 at 9:28 am

    #2020574

    VeritableHero - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 6:20 AM

    I haven't heard of reserving space with dummy files before today.  (Granted, I'm still new at this.)  That's an interesting idea if admin that handles storage isn't around to assist.

    Thanks for the link, and often the admin might be around, but adding storage or changing this isn't simple or allowed. It's also a place to quickly make a mistake under pressure.

    I used to keep 4-5GB around. Now I keep 10-20, just in case.

  • January 30, 2019 at 11:33 am

    #2020603

    the phrase 'junk grows to fill the available space' applies as much to computer resources as it does to basements. And as the amount of junk gets larger, so does the amount of stuff we don't even remember what it's for. Then cleaning up gets even harder.

    ...

    -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers --

  • January 31, 2019 at 6:54 am

    #2020691

    ... My other hope is that  we get quantum, PB sized storage devices that can fit in our phone. I can't ever remember anyone on Star Trek running out of storage space on their drives. I look forward to the day in my life when that won't happen to me...

    Steve,
    I'm curious about how you would use that PB of storage on your phone. I'm not sure if using our phones to archive every photo album, email, and download is a good idea. If someone steals my phone, I'd like them to be limited to only the last few weeks worth of cached data. Apple and Microsoft cloud storage is fairly inexpensive with virtually no limit on scalability, and I assume we're all backing up to the cloud anyhow.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • January 31, 2019 at 7:02 am

    #2020693

    Regarding mssql storage, if there is only one large database on the server, then managing space is relatively simple, just give it plenty of space and then initialize the data and log files to fill what's available. But what's really problematic is when there are several large databases sharing the same log and data drives, and because of end user patterns, each can grow unexpectedly. That is perhaps the scenario where creating a stub file can come in handy.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • January 31, 2019 at 8:54 am

    #2020717

    My wife bought me a new PC last year. It came with a 256 GB SSD as the system disk. With Microsoft Office and Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and some other useful utilities, there was not enough room to Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. During Christmas week 2018, I upgraded the drive to a 1 TB SSD. It may be overkill, but it was fairly inexpensive. I'm enjoying the speed of using an SSD.
    Hopefully, my work computer will be upgraded to one with an SSD.

  • January 31, 2019 at 10:02 am

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    Eric M Russell - Thursday, January 31, 2019 6:54 AM

    ... My other hope is that  we get quantum, PB sized storage devices that can fit in our phone. I can't ever remember anyone on Star Trek running out of storage space on their drives. I look forward to the day in my life when that won't happen to me...

    Steve,
    I'm curious about how you would use that PB of storage on your phone. I'm not sure if using our phones to archive every photo album, email, and download is a good idea. If someone steals my phone, I'd like them to be limited to only the last few weeks worth of cached data. Apple and Microsoft cloud storage is fairly inexpensive with virtually no limit on scalability, and I assume we're all backing up to the cloud anyhow.

    For me, having pictures and video of life are what I want. Is this a potential issue? Sure. I'm hoping security keeps getting better. I have remote wipe available, so I can do that if I know the phone is gone. I don't consider most pictures to be security issues, at least, not how I use my phone.

    I'm often without connectivity in places.  So I'd like to have stuff available at times, but more importantly, not have issues recording new stuff.

  • January 31, 2019 at 2:25 pm

    #2020777

    Managing phone space is a constant challenge. My 256 GB phone is basically full, and there isn't an easy work around for moving pictures off and maintaining my albums of thousands of pictures on a topic (flowers, leaves, food) that I use to make photomosaics.

    How do you manage the phone storage? Have you ever blogged about it?

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  • January 31, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    #2020792

    I've tried different things. Mostly I struggle to keep up. Right now I use Google to offload some stuff. I have a desktop where I put a lot of pictures, and video, and I used to have second machine where I backed things up, but that's off and I am somewhat just hoping Google/FB/Insta have the important ones for me.

  • February 1, 2019 at 12:34 am

    #2020816

    *Waiting on Quantum Storage* 
    *Reality kicks in*
    Meanwhile your Cloud Provider charges you by the GB and IOPS.

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