System Volume Information - Vista Forums:

I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big. I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave the lastest. However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size. My hard disk is 160GB capcacity. How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and then stop? What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.

Apparently some people are concerned about every last byte, I went looking to see what the SVI folder should be restricted to, as on my machine it had taken about 150GB of space. Apparently it was set to "unbounded" and not restricted to 15% or so of my drive. I set it to 1GB to clear out the old (since I'm doing a full system backup for just the purpose of having a system restore) and then set it to about 10% of my drive (26GB). Now I'm questioning my decision to move my iTunes library to the NAS device...