Question about my SSD

[HeaT]

I've got a crucial c300 64gb SSD. I have got Windows 7 installed with about 30gb free.

I recently had world of warcraft on the the SSD which only left me with a few free gbs of space.

Do SSDs require any amount of space for trimming. I think with W7 and wow I had about 3 or 4gb space free.

 

[hmmblah]

No, TRIM doesn't take up space. To free up some space on your SSD, move your pagefile to another drive. Also, disable hibernate and you will free up 3-5GB of space on the SSD (From a command prompt type "powercfg -h off" without the quotes.

 

[HeaT]

No, TRIM doesn't take up space. To free up some space on your SSD, move your pagefile to another drive. Also, disable hibernate and you will free up 3-5GB of space on the SSD (From a command prompt type "powercfg -h off" without the quotes.

Does trim require space on the SSD to work? I think i had hibernate already disabled. Could you explain what pagefiles are also(I will google it tho)

 

[hmmblah]

Does trim require space on the SSD to work? I think i had hibernate already disabled. Could you explain what pagefiles are also(I will google it tho)

No, TRIM does not require space. It's a function of the SSD controller and the OS.

Pagefiles are temp space on a hard drive for memory purposes. If you run out of physical memory (RAM) the OS will use a pagefile to store data. It becomes less important when you have loads of memory, but some programs (old programs) require a pagefile regardless of the amount of physical memory.