Increase storage on ACER Aspire ES1-132-C8WF

CUFFY407

Have recently purchased a ACER Aspire ES1-132-C8WF

Is it possible to increase storage on this device?

32GB just isn't going to be enough?

Sharanji

CUFFY407 

This device has a SD card reader; that basically means you can insert up to 64GB SD card (maybe even as large as 128GB). Use that to store your music, videos, pictures and other files. If you install any programs on the device it should be installed to the SD card.

You can also move the PageFile to the SD card which should show up as the drive when it is installed. The size of the PageFile is typically equal to the amount of RAM installed. So that should basically move a 2GB file off the C: drive onto the drive.

You can disable the Hibernation function of Windows which can probably save you 2GB or 3GB of space.

Remove Windows Update Files and Cached Data and delete restore points.

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Tmzdroid

You can increase storage by adding a hard drive you need to buy the SATA cable.

AntoJoseph

Hi,

By uninstalling the application are not used.

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How and When to Defragment Your Hard Drive in Windows 10

By Melanie Pinola | January 29, 2016 08:02 pm

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Over time, files on your hard drive get fragmented, and your computer slows down because it has to check multiple places on your drive for those pieces. To have your computer run more efficiently, use the built-in tool in Windows to defragment those files. Here's how and when you should do it.

Windows 10, like Windows 8 and Windows 7 before it, automatically defragments files for you on a schedule (by default, once a week). However, it doesn't always run consistently, so if you notice files are taking longer to load or you just want to double-check every month or so, you can see how fragmented the drive is in Windows.

A note about Solid State Drives (SSD): SSDs work differently than traditional mechanical hard drives. Conventional wisdom is that SSDs don't need to be defragmented and doing so can also wear down the drive. However, Windows does defragment SSDs once a month if necessary and if you have System Restore enabled. This isn't something to worry about, though, because the automatic defragmentation is meant to extend your drive's life and performance.

So with SSDs, just let Windows do its thing and don't worry about defragmentation. You can use the Optimize Drive tool below to do a general optimization of the drive, including sending the TRIM command to optimize performance. This doesn't do a traditional defrag on the SSD, though. For your mechanical drives, you can check and fix its fragmentation status with the steps below.

1. Open the disk optimization tool by searching for "optimize" or "defrag" in the taskbar.

2. Select your hard drive and click Analyze. Note that if you have a SSD, this option is grayed out and not available.

3. Check the percentage of fragmented files in the results.

There's no hard and fast rule about how fragmented your drive should be before you defrag it. You might want to keep your fragmentation percentage under 5% or so, however, so that the defragmentation process doesn’t take too long to finish.

4. If you want to defragment your drive, click Optimize. It's best to do this when you don't need to use your computer for anything else, so you can let Windows defragment the drive efficiently.

Thorsden

Hi, I've added a 500GB hard drive see below:

Acer Aspire ES1-132-8CWF

You can purchase the interface cable from Amazon for about £20 for the approved part.

Take the bottom lid off, eight screws and unclip starting at the rear of the PC
The connector socket is by the hardware on show. Plug the connector onto the socket by the hardware on show and thread the cable alongside the drive bay to the far end using the cutout route provided.
Plug in the drive
Put it carefully in the bay.
Not having the approved mounting kit, you need to absorb the small amount of free space in the bay to stop it floating around, I used a small amount of suitable bubble wrap cut to size.
Put the lid back on, put the screws back in and the hardware installation is complete.

Bob

GerhardRG

I am a defrag nut and want my HD optimized all the time. I have been using a program called, O&O defrag, for years. The newest version is set up for SSD drives.  Wouldn't have a computer without it. Check it out

nillvu15

i reinstalled windows and got 14gb and used registry tweaks to move program files and user folder to external HDD