There is no easy way of keeping a manual overview of file and folder changes on a particular hard drive. Several types of changes would have to be monitored including deletion, creation and modifications of files and folders on the hard drive.
The HDD Profiler provides a semi-automated way of monitoring a specific hard drive [...]
Hard Drive Profiler
External Hard Drives: How do I Choose Which One to Buy
Lately, I’ve realized that my computer is full of data and is close to its limit. Normally, I burn data onto a CD or DVD and then delete it off my system. The problem is that over time, the CDs have developed a few unreadable areas. So, I’ve pretty much lost a few chunks of [...]
Hard Drive Health Monitoring
Active Hard Disk Monitor is a hard drive health monitoring software that displays information about a computer system’s hard drive state. It analyzes and displays S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) information provided by compatible hard drives. Other features are hard drive performance monitoring and control, bad sector scanning as well as event logs and [...]
Dedicated Server Disk Wipes
System administrators do not have physical access to dedicated servers. These servers are usually hosted by a web hosting company in a secured data center. Most dedicated servers are rented for a certain period of time and then passed on to the next customer. While some dedicated server hosters securely wipe and format the hard [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 27th, 2009
- Comments: 5
Visualize your hard drive consumption with SpaceSniffer
No matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing [...]
Hard Disk Serial Number Changer
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 [...]
Analyse your hard disk and stop wasting space
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 1GB [...]
