Discrepancy of used space and actual shown space in the system.

[Windows 11]

I have two SSDs on my desktop pc. I have the smallest one dedicated to OS and related apps. Checking the actual files and apps installed in this disk, data shouldn't be taking more than 70gb and even worse when checking directly on storage setting, as it barely breaks 50gb. However, the disk is showing 128gb of used space. Why is there such a huge discrepancy between values? Why is storage locked on 128gb of used space on my 512gb disk?

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