hard drive

The dreaded moment has come and you can't download a movie you want to watch, or install some games you want to play because your hard drive is full.

What's worse, you have no idea what to delete to make some room. Thankfully there are several apps you can turn to that will give you a good idea what's using all of your drive space.

TechRadar: "Not long ago, a digital photo was a rarity, and even if you had a camera that could take them, you couldn't fit many on your hard drive. It's a similar story with music."

Toshiba's new 200GB hard drive is the largest automotive-grade drive on the market.

The past couple of weeks we ran the numbers on metadata performance for ramdisks and hard drive-based journals for ext4.

Now let's compare/contrast the two journal devices and see what trends emerge.

Raiden's Realm: "Recently I've been in the market for a self contained video player with a hard drive in it.

Why you might ask? Well, because my mom has a lot of recorded shows she wants to watch that are saved for later viewing.

And since I like to keep my setup to a minimum, I'm always looking for ways in which to make something as self contained as possible."

Ghacks: "The Linux operating system has a really nice tool for testing and optimizing your hard drive. This tool is called hdparm and can work with both IDE and ATA drives."

Lilliputing: "...it shuns the usual Intel Atom processor for a 900MHz Loongson CPU and instead of a hard drive the computer has a removable USB key called the G-Key."

Western Digital on Wednesday announced that it was shipping a 640-Gbyte hard drive for notebook computers.

HowtoForge: "BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive."

Bob Sutor: "If you are going to wipe your hard drive, but before you pay a dime for Windows 7, try a Linux desktop distribution.

If you don't like it, what's the worst that's going to happen?"