Microsoft has for many years included a disk cleanup tool in the Windows operating system. So where did all of this space go? Let’s find out. The drive only has about 50GB of free space remaining, even though it only contains a few applications and no data. One of the PCs on my desk, for example, contains a 250GB SSD. It is surprisingly easy to fill up these low capacity SSDs without really trying.
This might seem like a nonissue in today’s world of multi-terabyte drives, but PC manufacturers are increasingly including small but fast SSDs in place of the slow, high-capacity hard drives that we are all accustomed to. Regardless of the number of years that I have been using Windows, I am always surprised to see just how quickly free disk space can seemingly evaporate.
