Otherwise, extend it until it comes in at about that percentage.
As to how big your OS partition should be, 50Gb is ok as long as it is no more than 65% full.
Hauppauge® WinTV-HVR-1200 Hybrid Analog/Digital TV Tunerġ GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT420 as default video card.ĩ partitions will not slow the system down much, probably unappreciably in fact. Second 500 GB HDD which I am using as a slave drive to store Movies etc.Ĭreative PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio Intel Core i-7 2600 Sandy Bridge ( 3.4 GHz ) Processor In order to have a lightening fast performance, how much free space should I leave in the OS Partitions ? I do download some stuff everyday & it goes in Downloads folder & takes up upto 25 GB of space. The OS Partition is 100Gb & I have installed all applications in OS Partion.Īll the applications with Win -7 Ultimate 64 bit has taken up 50 GB space. Have 2nd 500 GB HDD as slave with 2 partitions, one has Win -7 Ultimate & 2nd partition is where I store Movies & Video Files. I just got a new PC with following configuration and have made 9 partitions on my 500 GB hard disk and