how does freeing up storage space make your computer faster?
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Making a simple analogy thus not covering everything:
Imagine you have physical folders of documents on your desk, you want to find stuff or move stuff around to organise and fill some forms with data from one place to another.
With only a few of them it is fairly easy, but past a certain point it becomes a chore to do it, so instead of working with the documents and finishing the work you have to do, you spend more and more time just managing the said documents.
This is only an analogy for a filesystem and depending the type of filesystem it might be more or less prone to these issues. Also, if your workload doesn’t need to check for these documents, then it doesn’t really matter how full your disk/desk is – note that the computer OS often has background tasks that actually use the disk in one way or another.
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