4 hours ago, turbomax said:

definitely not true. I have recently had a mere 5 GB on my FSFS SSD left, and only some 20 GB on my Windows drive. while not ideal, it still worked.

You're probably right, but that's what I was told, and I have since tried to keep at least 200 GB in my drive and haven't received the system message since then. 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/you-receive-the-your-computer-has-run-out-of-available-memory-error-message-when-you-start-flight-simulator-cf7b592d-ee6f-8885-244f-876bf6f7a4e9

3 hours ago, dobee51 said:

I have since tried to keep at least 200 GB in my drive and haven't received the system message since then. 

you can try to keep even more, say 500 GB free on your drive and also won't get that message again 😀. on SSDs/VNVMe's one should always provide a certain percentage "overprovision" free space but that refers primarily to write, not read operations, and not necessarily 200 GB, that is overkill. I prefer to take it from manufacturers who build these devices, instead of what we hear through the grapevine;

https://www.seagate.com/de/de/tech-insights/ssd-over-provisioning-benefits-master-ti/

https://www.ontrack.com/en-us/blog/what-is-over-provisioning-and-how-does-it-benefit-a-ssd

https://www.minitool.com/partition-disk/ssd-over-provisioning.html

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/short-form/how-ssd-over-provisioning-impacts-memory-performance/

Edited November 15, 20223 yr by turbomax