Resolved Required free space on D: drive

My D: drive has a 220GB capacity. I use it for items I only occasionally access. Presently I have 12GB of free space on it. Everything on the disk is accessed quickly when required. If I was to store an extra 8GB of documents on the drive, leaving 4GB of space, would there be any negative consequences? Thanks.

 

Assuming this is not a boot drive, you can fill it up and suffer no "significant" consequences.

HOWEVER, you really should free up some space on it and leave 20Gb or so. This allows Windows to do proper housekeeping (like defragging). Windows automatically defrags our hard drives every couple weeks to a month. Defragging needs free space to temporarily put file segments while defragging.

If you cannot delete any files from that drive, or move some to your C drive, you need to add more disk space.

 

Thanks, Bill. I've added more space.