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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 960047" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>My own general rule of thumb:</p><p></p><p>System drive/partition (the one your operating system is on) - recommend 15% minimum and I suggest this become a rule not to be broken - yes, even on a 2TB partition - I have maintained 25% for over 15 years - less than 25%, if you're watching, you will begin to notice a speed difference.</p><p></p><p>There was much discussion of this in the mid-90's, and pretty rarely since the advent of 100GB+ drives except in relation to the slow down as a drive becomes full.</p><p></p><p>Data drive/partition - recommend 5-10% minimum - I have do not allow any partition less than 15% free space (with the exception of a swap file /virtual memory partition). </p><p></p><p>This depends a lot on how you use the data drive. If it's used solely as storage, e.g. data is written to and left sitting there, you're probably ok at the lower end. If you're writing, deleting, writing, deleting, you'll want to keep your free space at the upper end.</p><p></p><p>My recommendation for data drives is definitely based on empirical evidence vs. scientific.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 960047, member: 24160"] My own general rule of thumb: System drive/partition (the one your operating system is on) - recommend 15% minimum and I suggest this become a rule not to be broken - yes, even on a 2TB partition - I have maintained 25% for over 15 years - less than 25%, if you're watching, you will begin to notice a speed difference. There was much discussion of this in the mid-90's, and pretty rarely since the advent of 100GB+ drives except in relation to the slow down as a drive becomes full. Data drive/partition - recommend 5-10% minimum - I have do not allow any partition less than 15% free space (with the exception of a swap file /virtual memory partition). This depends a lot on how you use the data drive. If it's used solely as storage, e.g. data is written to and left sitting there, you're probably ok at the lower end. If you're writing, deleting, writing, deleting, you'll want to keep your free space at the upper end. My recommendation for data drives is definitely based on empirical evidence vs. scientific. [/QUOTE]
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