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Is 150GB SSD Insufficient?

letherblakaletherblaka Member, Alpha Two
in General Discussion
So I have a bit of an older PC that has around 150 GB SSD. According to the minimum requirements and what I've heard from others it should be enough. However, when I reach 100% Download, sometimes earlier, the following popup shows up:

"There is insufficient disk space to complete the operation. Please free up 90.02 GB of space and restart the launcher."

When I go and check the SSD it shows 14 GB of free space left. Of the other 136 GB the AOC folder only takes up 70 GB.

Any advice on how to solve this?

Comments

  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
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    I think you might be having issues with the unpacking process, which sometimes requires slightly more than the app initially asks for.

    This is especially important if your SSD is the only source of storage on your PC.
  • letherblakaletherblaka Member, Alpha Two
    I see. Do you know then if it's possible to seperate the unpacking process?
  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    letherblaka wrote: »
    I see. Do you know then if it's possible to seperate the unpacking process?
    No clue.
  • LaetitianLaetitian Member
    edited April 27
    letherblaka wrote: »
    Any advice on how to solve this?
    At the risk of sounding entitled, storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and it's one of the most undeniably useful upgrades, if you're storage-limited (and assuming you don't have a terabyte wasted on unnecessary files you were meant to clean up.)
    The only one who can validate you for all the posts you didn't write is you.
  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    Even if 150 GB were enough today, the nature of an MMORPG means it wouldn't be enough for very long.
  • letherblakaletherblaka Member, Alpha Two
    Laetitian wrote: »
    letherblaka wrote: »
    Any advice on how to solve this?
    At the risk of sounding entitled, storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and it's one of the most undeniably useful upgrades, if you're storage-limited (and assuming you don't have a terabyte wasted on unnecessary files you were meant to clean up.)

    Totally valid point (imo). My problem is that the big storage I have is a secondary HDD which doesn't help since AOC requires SSD. And the only SSD I have is the main drive that also hosts Windows.

    I now got 1TB of external SSD with 4MB of reading & writing speed. Patching seems to work so far, although slower. I'll have to see how it works for running the game itself.
  • Sundance2226Sundance2226 Member, Alpha Two
    the inufficient disc space error actually has nothing to do with insufficient disc space. it's a different process hanging it up.
  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    letherblaka wrote: »
    Laetitian wrote: »
    letherblaka wrote: »
    Any advice on how to solve this?
    At the risk of sounding entitled, storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and it's one of the most undeniably useful upgrades, if you're storage-limited (and assuming you don't have a terabyte wasted on unnecessary files you were meant to clean up.)

    Totally valid point (imo). My problem is that the big storage I have is a secondary HDD which doesn't help since AOC requires SSD. And the only SSD I have is the main drive that also hosts Windows.

    I now got 1TB of external SSD with 4MB of reading & writing speed. Patching seems to work so far, although slower. I'll have to see how it works for running the game itself.

    Unfortunately, an external SSD likely won't work for Ashes of Creation either :(
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  • AuldrakarAuldrakar Member, Alpha Two
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.
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  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.

    Something like this does not meet the minimum requirements for testing Ashes of Creation, and I do not recommend it :(
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  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    letherblaka wrote: »
    Laetitian wrote: »
    letherblaka wrote: »
    Any advice on how to solve this?
    At the risk of sounding entitled, storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and it's one of the most undeniably useful upgrades, if you're storage-limited (and assuming you don't have a terabyte wasted on unnecessary files you were meant to clean up.)

    Totally valid point (imo). My problem is that the big storage I have is a secondary HDD which doesn't help since AOC requires SSD. And the only SSD I have is the main drive that also hosts Windows.

    I now got 1TB of external SSD with 4MB of reading & writing speed. Patching seems to work so far, although slower. I'll have to see how it works for running the game itself.

    Upgrading from HDD to SSD even for a storage drive is a massive upgrade.

    Your 4MB a second is in contrast to a SATA SSD hitting 500MB/s, or an NVMe hitting 5,000MB/s (or more).

    The read time is the real issue here, not the data storage medium.
  • AuldrakarAuldrakar Member, Alpha Two
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.

    Something like this does not meet the minimum requirements for testing Ashes of Creation, and I do not recommend it :(

    Why? It was advertised as an external SSD, not just a flash drive, I should clarify. You still think it won't work? It's got plenty of room on it.
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  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.

    Something like this does not meet the minimum requirements for testing Ashes of Creation, and I do not recommend it :(

    Why? It was advertised as an external SSD, not just a flash drive, I should clarify. You still think it won't work? It's got plenty of room on it.

    Generally speaking, external drives are for archival storage, not for running applications from.

    As with anything, there are exceptions. However, at $40, you aren't getting one of those exceptions.

    Realistically speaking, Ashes needs 150GB+ of either SATA or NVMe SSD space. You can try and find a cheaper way to do it (not that either of these are expensive), but all you are doing is throwing money away.
  • AuldrakarAuldrakar Member, Alpha Two
    Noaani wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.

    Something like this does not meet the minimum requirements for testing Ashes of Creation, and I do not recommend it :(

    Why? It was advertised as an external SSD, not just a flash drive, I should clarify. You still think it won't work? It's got plenty of room on it.

    Generally speaking, external drives are for archival storage, not for running applications from.

    As with anything, there are exceptions. However, at $40, you aren't getting one of those exceptions.

    Realistically speaking, Ashes needs 150GB+ of either SATA or NVMe SSD space. You can try and find a cheaper way to do it (not that either of these are expensive), but all you are doing is throwing money away.

    Thanks for letting me know. :(

    Are there any external SSD's that would work reasonably well? I have a gaming laptop, and don't want to risk opening it. It has shit storage space though.
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  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Are there any external SSD's that would work reasonably well? I have a gaming laptop, and don't want to risk opening it. It has shit storage space though.
    Btw, just to kinda warn you, several people have said that Ashes has either crashed their laptop or has strongly impacted its working abilities. And yes, even the gaming ones.
  • AuldrakarAuldrakar Member, Alpha Two
    Ludullu wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Are there any external SSD's that would work reasonably well? I have a gaming laptop, and don't want to risk opening it. It has shit storage space though.
    Btw, just to kinda warn you, several people have said that Ashes has either crashed their laptop or has strongly impacted its working abilities. And yes, even the gaming ones.

    OK, thanks for letting me know.
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  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    edited May 7
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Noaani wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.

    Something like this does not meet the minimum requirements for testing Ashes of Creation, and I do not recommend it :(

    Why? It was advertised as an external SSD, not just a flash drive, I should clarify. You still think it won't work? It's got plenty of room on it.

    Generally speaking, external drives are for archival storage, not for running applications from.

    As with anything, there are exceptions. However, at $40, you aren't getting one of those exceptions.

    Realistically speaking, Ashes needs 150GB+ of either SATA or NVMe SSD space. You can try and find a cheaper way to do it (not that either of these are expensive), but all you are doing is throwing money away.

    Thanks for letting me know. :(

    Are there any external SSD's that would work reasonably well? I have a gaming laptop, and don't want to risk opening it. It has shit storage space though.

    Your best bet is looking up your specific laptop to see how to open it and add an SSD. if it was sold as a gaming laptop with specs capable of playing Ashes, yet with such a small amount of storage, the assumption would be that more storage would be added.

    There will be tutorials and such on how to do it, it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.
  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    edited May 9
    While I can't officially recommend taking your laptop apart, I just did a battery and SSD swap on my ROG Ally, and while it was challenging, it was also rewarding and fun :)
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  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Auldrakar wrote: »
    I got a cheap USB flash drive on Amazon with a TB on it. I think it was like $40 or something.

    Something like this does not meet the minimum requirements for testing Ashes of Creation, and I do not recommend it :(

    Why? It was advertised as an external SSD, not just a flash drive, I should clarify. You still think it won't work? It's got plenty of room on it.

    I'd make sure you check out our minimum spec requirements for running Ashes of Creation. You can find those here: https://support.ashesofcreation.com/hc/en-us/articles/26658550834835-What-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-computer-specifications-for-Alpha-Two

    (One of which is an internal SSD 😅)
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