Requirements of disk space quite reduced on Windows 10
With the advance of SSD and cheap tablet with storage reduced, Windows had to experiment with new technologies to reduce the disk space occupied Windows 10. Here is what these technologies.
Microsoft confirmed to be working on some technologies to reduce the disk space occupied by Windows 10. Among these, the Redmond giant could introduce a method for compressing the file system, already offered as an option on Windows 10 Preview build 9879, and also available on the utility disk cleaning builds currently published. In addition, Microsoft is redesigning the system image recovery.
It is a response to the progressive diffusion of the units of solid-state storage. SSDs are already offered with high-end notebooks for years, but despite their price has been drastically reduced in proportion to the more traditional mechanical drives the cost per gigabyte is still very high. That has not stopped some manufacturers to integrate solid-state drives also on tablets cheaper, choosing cuts of 32 or 16 GB.
But even some high-end products using solid-state drives with reduced capabilities: for example Surface Pro 3 is available with a 64 GB SSD in its declination basic space that collects from the first boot the operating system files and partition with the recovery image (which alone takes up almost 10% of the integrated storage). In order to avoid problems of this type, Microsoft is redesigning the two sides above the operating system.
With a new compression algorithm of the system files, the company promises a reduction of the space occupied by about 1.5 GB on 32-bit and about 2.6 GB on 64-bit. These benefits will also be reflected on the smartphone version, and will not be available exclusively for the desktop version of the operating system. To further reduce space, Windows 10 will no longer use the canonical images of recovery, which in some cases could take up to 12 GB of disk space.
To achieve it, Microsoft has redesigned the functionality for the system restore to factory, which will be operated using the same runtime files of the operating system and no longer a separate partition. This not only saves disk space, but after the restoration no longer needs to install the updates made earlier.
SSDs latest offer very high speeds, it is expected that the performance degradation resulting from the application of the compression of the file system. Microsoft has chosen to block some configurations with limited CPU and RAM, so as to avoid any significant damage in terms of performance. Microsoft is also working on devices that use current WIMBOOT: with the aim of offering the possibility of recovery by eliminating the specific partition, the company is ” considering a couple of options for procedures and reliable upgrade for devices ” with limited capability’s storage.
