I've got Cake's content on my C drive and ALL my other programs as well.  Yes...I'd like some of the media content on my other drives and figure that could occur later.
 
What I DON'T understand is I'm ONLY using 95gb of my C drive at this point.  I'm NOT running a SSD drive, but even so, that would NOT fill up the smallest SSD drives.  I consider myself a typical user of Sonar, so I might expect my amounts to be *normal*.  Seems I NEVER hear people screaming about Windows Updates.  That's a HUGE offender, that I've seen.

I wonder what all these people have on their C drives that are using up their 240gb of space.  Must be a lot of other non-audio related stuff as a guess.

mixmkr
I wonder what all these people have on their C drives that are using up their 240gb of space.  Must be a lot of other non-audio related stuff as a guess.

My C: drive/partition is 47 gb full, including 4 gb for pagefile.sys.
 
I've moved as much user and music related stuff as I could elsewhere without (yet) resorting to user-created symbolic links.
 
TreeSizeFree is great for finding out what's taking up all the space.
 

Having enough space isn't my concern.  Being able to have lean system partitions for imaging is the concern for me.  A secondary benefit is to relieve whatever contention might be there for access.
 
As an example, I have 48G used from my C drive.  It was 39 before I moved back to Sonar.  And I didn't use CCC.  I installed SPlat manually, so *most* of the 'content' is on a different drive.  The exception is Cakewalk Sound Center, which offered no opportunity to store content with the rest.
 
 

BobF
Having enough space isn't my concern.  Being able to have lean system partitions for imaging is the concern for me.

Me too.  I just downloaded Macrium Reflect Free yesterday and imaged my most important partitions.  Figured I was playing with fire not having imaged since I built this system two years ago.

I use Acronis and it takes a couple minutes on my 95gig used, C drive,  to plop another image on an external.  And that's a total image, not an update.

mixmkr
 Seems I NEVER hear people screaming about Windows Updates.  That's a HUGE offender, that I've seen.

I haven't seen such a problem for many years.... In the past for sure.
 
Never an issue anyway if you move your cakewalk content folder, downloaded installation packages, plugins and projects onto another drive. My C drive is extremely slim.
 
Cheers..

mixmkr
What I DON'T understand is I'm ONLY using 95gb of my C drive...

 
Capacity is not the only consideration. HDDs work faster when there is less on them. Filling them up slows down average file access times (although this does not apply to SSDs). Dividing the files across several drives allows simultaneous access or at least less queueing. Separating files that often fragment from files that never change is good too. Also speading the load over several drives save wear and tear and increases the life expectancy of the hardware.

Excuse whilst  I choke up...
Is this the most rational thread ever...?
 
Sorry please continue  This is bloody refreshing...
 
Apols

mixmkr
  Seems I NEVER hear people screaming about Windows Updates.  

Windows file belong on the C drive.  Data files do not.

vintagevibe

mixmkr
  Seems I NEVER hear people screaming about Windows Updates.  

Windows file belong on the C drive.  Data files do not.

I definitely agree with that, if for no other reason than you can just back up an entire data drive in one fell swoop.