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So after my accidental upgrade a couple of weeks ago, after Sterling had been acting up and I bought El Boquerón on sale as “insurance” (but then ended up keeping him), I was feeling quite chuffed. Because I had been assured that with Boquerón (aka HP ENVY-17-bw0001ns) I was getting the “latest generation” jazz, including not only 1 Tetra of HD memory, but also 128 GB of SSD memory, GUARANTEED to make my system run faster. So like wow, okay, sign me up (even though I had only a small idea of what SSD was).
And when I first got Boquerón up and running, this proved to be the case. Everything was zippity-do-dahing along like crazy, which was great. Though it was a bit faffy setting up and uploading my gazillion photos to the D-drive (HDD) to keep the C-drive (SSD) unencumbered. And I thought I had been doing things right… until I was told yesterday that my SSD had next to no space left and I had to do SOMETHING about it.
And I have tried. But it would help if I knew what I was supposed to be doing. I have all my downloaded programmes and (of course) my gazillion photos stored on the HDD. And even after eliminating superfluous files and programmes from my C-drive, I still only have about 5 GB of free space on my SSD. WTF? HELP?
casa azahar 
Use a plug in external drive for your photos. 1TB ones not expensive. I use one for photos and while they are not immediately to hand if you file them, as I know you already do, it’s just two minutes to plug in and get the ones you want. A good external hard drive will have a back up facility too. Mine cost about £60 five years ago. I use it for my floristry photos and family history files regularly, moving stuff over and backing up every two or three weeks and no problems at all. Before I bought that I used pen drives but the space was always too small so I ended up with a dozen or so and it didn’t feel safe. Someone more technical than me will suggest using a Cloud set up but my stuff is important to me and I like to be in control of it!
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I do have an external HD for backup, and it’s very handy, but I do like having all my stuff actually on the computer.
And on this computer there are two drives – an HD that has 1 tetra of space, which has all my photos in it, and an SSD. The actual problem is (was!) that the SSD was suddenly full even though my photos were stored on the HD. But then I discovered an iPhone backup that had downloaded onto the SSD and now I have an extra 50GBs freed up. Phew!
Agree with you about Cloud storage, even though physical HDs can become corrupted. But for now I think everything is under control.
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