I was at work and some computers that were nearly maxed on storage were basically unusable. This doesn’t make sense because my understanding was RAM was the storage the computer uses to run tasks and the storage was for things downloaded
My guess would be that the storage is used for ‘long term’ RAM, something that will be needed for a while anyways but idk. Outside of that I can’t really think of anything else
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Windows has virtual memory, which is ram and paging file (usually dynamic size). Even with plenty of free ram, OS often makes use of paging file to offload unused memory segment or very rarely used. So when your disk is full, it could impact the dynamic size of the paging file.
Also, searching for free disk block when there arent many can affect performance va when you have plenty.
Also, many programs rely on disk i/o for tmp and persistent file storage. Many arent resilient to out of space errors and may manage this situation poorly
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