C Drive running low in space. Can I add a new hard disk to save my local files?

[cheryl.choo]

Hi there,

My Revit software is installed in my C drive. We use Revit collaboratively. My Revit local files are saved in my C drive too. However, my C drive is running low on space, 10% left of the overall space. Can I install a new hard disk to my pc and save my local files in it? Or should I duplicate my C drive into a larger hard disk and keep my local files there? Will it affect the performance of Revit if the local files and software are not in the same hard disk? What is your recommendation for best performance?

Thank you in advance!

[Karol_Piroska]

sure you can do it that way. I have local files on a separate drive myself.

Before you do that, you can try to simply clean your C drive to see if you can gain enough space. You could try some or all of the following:

- delete the content of the entire "C:\Autodesk" folder.

- delete all journal files

- compress C drive (I did this previously, have same on my home laptop and never had any issues)

- disk cleanup (including system files, system resotre and shadow copies)

[ennujozlagam]

Yes you can, just create a new local file and save to your external disk/add harddisk, but you will experience some slowness. Thanks

[ennujozlagam]

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[cheryl.choo]

Hi, are you confirming that having local files saved in a separate hard disk (not external hard disk) from C drive will slow down the Revit performance? Can you explain why? What if it is a SSD? Thanks.

[cheryl.choo]

Hi, does it affect your Revit performance speed? Is your pc/laptop installed with both HDDs?

Yes, I've cleaned up my C drive. But it is always at the borderline of 10% space left.

Thanks.

[philsogood]

hi

if you have a laptop the best thing you'll have to to is to buy a memory card... i do this for my computer because i know that with time SSD will be too small

you insert your card in the slot for memory card and, hop, you've got a new memory à 256Go... easy, cheap, no need of back office support  or else!! 😉

Phil

[Karol_Piroska]

With my previous PC I was able to gain around 20GB of space (which was a lot on 100GB drive).

My C drive is SSD, D drive is a classic drive. I haven't experienced any performance issues really. Give it a try and see.

[RobDraw]

First try to clean up the C: drive. Check all temp folders and delete everything in them that you can.

You should not get any performance hit as long as you don't get cheap hardware.

@philsogood, the memory card suggestion is not good. AFAIK, they are slower than hard drives and that statement about SSDs being too small is not true at all. Just make sure to get one that has a decent amount of memory. They come in pretty large sizes now.