What would happen if you filled an HD or SSD to the last byte? Would it stop the pc from functioning?
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Yes. Modern operating systems like Windows use a portion of your hard drive to store some temporary files it needs to function. It may also use your disk as extra memory if your onboard memory gets over utilized.
For this reason, there has to be some space available for these temporary files. Windows for sure (other OSs too, probably) has some alerting that is built in to start warning you when your space is getting low. You can change when this occurs in the performance/alerts section, but I believe the default is 10% remaining.
Continuing to fill up your disk space will result in gradual increases in performances issues until your computer is pretty much unusable and it becomes difficult to even delete files to free up space as even the act of deleting files takes up some temporary space.
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