DaVinci Resolve SSD full?

Resolve spreads several kinds of generated files across your SSD, and the project does not warn you as they grow. There is the render cache, the optimized media Resolve transcodes on import, gallery stills, and Fusion caches, all on top of the camera originals. A single complex grade can quietly reach hundreds of gigabytes in a week, and you hit disk-full mid-render with no idea which folder belongs to which project.

The quick cleanup is worth knowing. Clear the render cache with Playback then Delete Render Cache then All, which the project rebuilds as needed. Remove heavy optimized media with Playback then Delete Optimized Media. And the locations for the cache, optimized media and gallery stills all live under File then Project Settings then Master Settings then Working Folders, where you can point them at another drive. That buys space back, but it still leaves the real weight on your SSD: the original rushes.

Sanbila takes the originals off that disk. On import they upload to cloud storage with a redundant backup copy, the proxy is encoded on the Sanbila cloud so your GPU is free to grade, and only the light proxy, 10 to 50 times smaller, sits in a Virtual Folder Resolve reads as local media. You still keep Resolve's render cache and optimized media on a fast drive, but the camera files that used to dominate the SSD are no longer there.

The local proxy cache has a size limit you set, from 5 GB to 500 GB, and least-recently-used eviction trims the oldest proxies first and never deletes an original. Pin the project in your current colour session so it is excluded from eviction, and unpin at delivery. When you conform for the finish, export an FCPXML and Smart Relink switches the timeline clips back to the full resolution originals streamed from the cloud via a local mount, so the debayer and grade run on real sensor data. Nothing you clear is lost, because a dropped proxy re-streams on demand.