Ed Bott has published a very interesting article today about the benefits of running Windows 7 on a solid state hard disk (SSD).  He wanted to test the real-world benefits, if there are any, of upgrading to an SSD on which to install your copy of Windows. I won’t repeat what the article says here, but it’s [...]

Categories: Hardware

If you are looking for a tool that can give you a graphical, interactive representation of what is taking up all of that hard disk space on your Linux machine, look no further than Baobab. Baobab (also a tree native to Madagascar) is a graphical, menu-driven viewer that allows you to get a birds eye view of [...]

Categories: Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

It’s not the first time we’ve seen external hard disks sold complete with libraries of goodies on board but this one is a little different.  Reg Hardware has reportedthat US soft-porn giant Playboy is selling it’s own branded 250Gb hard disk with a digital copy of every issue of Playboy magazine from 1953 to the [...]

Categories: Hardware

It’s always a worry when you get rid of a PC or hard drive that all sorts of personal data could be sitting on it waiting to be stolen.  This is even more important when it comes to business computers. There have always been a huge variety of hard disk wiping packages available from third-parties, [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced

I recently build a new computer system that uses Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as its operating system and a very fast Intel Solid State Drive with 80 Gigabytes of storage space as the primary hard disk. More than half of the hard disk was filled with data according to Windows 7 shortly after the installation [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Whenever a hard drive is formatted in Windows a serial number is assigned in the end. This serial number is often used by software applications to restrict a software installation to that hard drive or reduce the number of allowed activations by one by linking the serial number of the hard drive to one of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when trying to clear space. In fact, they took up 5GB of space! Whilst disk space is no longer seen as a problem, considering [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Tools, Windows

I covered software programs or Windows Explorer extensions that would display hard drive space usage before. (for example Folder Size or JDiskReport Hard Drive Analyser) FoSiX is another tool that displays the storage consumption of each system partition that, hard drive and external device that is currently connected to the computer. The software provides a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan is a guest post by Rarst who is running his own tech blog Rarst.net, a blog about software and IT-related web resources. Definitely worth adding to a RSS News Feed reader. SpeedFan is well known program in the category of system monitoring. It is a very good tool for controlling [...]

Categories: Software, Windows