On 22/03/2011, at 10:08 AM, gary dorn wrote:
> > Howdy > > My MacPro 2.66, 3GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5.8 , a 500 GB harddisk , says it has > only 17Gb left. > > In the past week, its been getting spinning ball of death, which meant I have > had to force restart. > Usually occurs when I have a number of Pages, Numbers and PDFs open and I go > to open a 3D imaging software ( google earth, BoA etc) > > Is this a sign I need to get another Hard disk? Hi Gary, Yes, for sure. A hard Drive running with only 17GB Free space, is lucky to be running at all. If your drive is too full, performance is affected dramatically. You need to keep at least 15%-20% of your total hard drive space free for the operating system to use for optimal performance. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
