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jeffmcjunkin
on Sept 17, 2016
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How Chrome ate 21GB of storage
This is prior versions of Chrome taking up disk space, not memory. That's a completely separate issue.
tedunangst
on Sept 17, 2016
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Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.
danudey
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A lot of our lapops at work (the majority, in fact) have ~240GB SSDs, so that's about 10% of their disks. Not insignificant.
sliverstorm
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I think your parent was being facetious
cmdrfred
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I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.
tedunangst
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It's usually easier to reclaim RAM than storage. Which application am I not using right now? vs What data will I never need again?
NicoJuicy
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Previous versions of chrome...
loeg
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Hm. On some machines I only have 8x the SSD as RAM. I might take the 2.1GB to 21GB trade in that case :-).
coldtea
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Then don't use Chrome on those machines?
flamedoge
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It's all up in the Cloud
witty_username
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21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.
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