Is it OK for SSD to erase data once it goes below 16 GB?

[Scorpio187]

Hey folks,

I just noticed the second time (first time it happened I wasn’t completely sure) that the storage on my main OS (C) partition went up from 16 GB to 22.4 GB overnight. I got 512 GB SSD (two partitions) on my laptop (ASUS NX500) (Win 10). I don’t know which files had been removed.

Is this common? Are all those files gone now?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Free space?

Yeah, Windows probably cleaned up some update files it had downloaded earlier. The files are gone, for all intents and purposes.

The SSD didn't erase anything it wasn't told to by the OS.

 

[Valantar]

Yeah, probably some automated cleanup linked to low available drive space. If you want to preempt this (in W10): go to settings -> system -> storage -> click the drive in question. Here, you can see the drive space used for temporary files and the like, and clean it up if/when needed.

 

[Scorpio187]

But don't you guys think that the difference of 7GB for that is quite significant?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

But don't you guys think that the difference of 7GB for that is quite significant?

No.

 

[Scorpio187]

Ah well, as long as you've considered it from all angles!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Heh. Sorry to come of as surly, but 7GB really is a pittance.. Updates are big, especially if you count the rollback info.

I've got about 25GB of random downloaded crap in my c:\windows directory that Windows should eventually clean up on its own. I can only hope.

But then I also have a 1TB SSD, so what me worry?

 

[Fardringle]

7GB of temp files is significant, but not surprising, or even unusual. I frequently see machines with far more than that if Windows hasn't cleaned the temp folders recently, or if misbehaving programs don't clean up after themselves.

 

[corkyg]

... and the more surfing you do, the more temp Internet files you generate.