

Spending a mere $50 for a 250GB Samsung 860 Evo drive that is 200% faster than this old drive will eventually be a wise investment, but to be honest apart from frequently running out of storage, we haven't had a reason to upgrade the drive, nor have we installed a new copy of Windows in more than five years. Although SSDs have improved by leaps and bounds over the nine years since this Intel drive was released, the device still has plenty of life left according to SSDlife Free and Intel's SSD Toolbox utility. Those of you running Windows on a compact SSD probably know what a chore it can be to maintain enough space on your drive between mobile backups, Windows Updates, PC games, media files, and so on.įor this little guide we took it to an extreme by trying to free up space on an old 80GB Intel X25-M G2 solid state drive.

Windows 10 comes with a built-in service to automatically delete temporary files on a schedule.

Note: If you don’t see the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop, you can get it back easily by checking out how to restore missing features in Windows 10.
