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External hard drive questions
I recently purchased a Inspirion 5000 series laptop. I like it very much and try to keep it lean, I.e, I do not load it up with a lot of stuff. That is because it has a 128GB solid State HD. I thought that that would be plenty, but with recent MS updates, I am down to 42 gb free. A ways to go yet till I have to worry, but, I am thinking of an external HD.
I read posts warning me to buy one with a dock to keep it safe, and to buy a good brand. OK.
My questions: am I reacting too fast to diminish drive space? Also, can I save game installation files (e.g. Withcher 2 or the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition from Steam) to the EHD and them play the game, and save directly to the EHD
As is clear, I know really very little about this subject--or I wouldn't have bought a laptop with a SSHD. Oh well...
Appreciate your insights, Forum members.
ejn63
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September 18th, 2016 14:00
You can probably reduce the footprint of Windows by reducing the amount of space taken by system restore, but 256G is a practical minimum for long term use as an OS drive - 128 G (or less) is just too little space). Yes, you can install some packages to an external drive - games, among them -- but other applications are not as easy to run from external drives (anything that starts up when the system does, such as office suites, security software, etc.).