How to Check Available Hard Disk Space? How do I Find Available Hard Disk Space? This video tutorial answers those questions and focuses on using Folder Size. This freeware program helps figure out where all that available hard drive space went and how much is left, visually and fast!

With video, music, photos and other assorted items eating up hard drive space more and more each day, your going to ask yourself “Where did all my space I go?” With over a terabyte (1024 Gigabytes) of hard drive space on my own Computer, I too burn through it at a rapid rate (I have 30% of it free :D)

The fast way to free up hard drive space is by deleting the biggest files and folders right away. Don’t waste time guessing who they are or where there are any longer, for Folder Size is here to save the day!

I am a BIG FAN of small size, low resource programs and this freeware program Folder Size, created by RoteBetaSoftware does not disappoint.

This Very easy to use, quick and excellent productivity tool is used in Microsoft Windows for displaying the size of folders and subfolders as bar charts. These charts are clickable and displays an overview for the folder & its subfolders.

It is a self contained program, meaning it does not require installation to use it, which is always a plus for me! If you like this software you can donate to RoteBetaSoftware here http://www.rotebetasoftware.net/wp/donations/. Well lets continue on!

Downloads Needed:

• Folder Size

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Download and Run Folder Size.
2. Double click the hard drive you would like to view data from, then it will calculate your data.
3. When the calculation is done, it will list the largest to smallest folders. Click each bar and view the information, then you can determine what you need to delete or uninstall to reclaim your space.

VIDEO TUTORIAL [Please View Fullscreen]

More information:

Words From Folder Size Creator RoteBetaSoftware:

Folder Size Helps you figure out where all that hard drive space has gone on your computer.

Visually displays the size of each folder in the form of a bar graph… click a folder bar and it will drill down and show sizes of folders within… handy utility to have… give it a try and then suggest some improvements in the forum.

System Requirements:
No installation needed, just unzip and run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

You can find more information about Folder Size at http://www.rotebetasoftware.net/wp/freeware/folder-size/

Why Should I Keep Up With My Available Hard Drive Space?

• Burning CD’s and DVD’s requires you to have ample space on your hard drive or else it can have failed burns.
• Low hard drive space can have your computer moving very sluggish, making your personal computing horrible and miserable!
• Microsoft Windows Swap file takes up a lot of space usually as it expands. A swap file is a space on a hard drive used as the virtual memory extension of a computer’s real memory (RAM). Having a swap file allows your Microsoft Windows to pretend that you have more RAM than you actually do. The least recently used files in RAM can be “swapped out” to your hard disk until they are needed later so that new files can be “swapped in” to RAM.

What Is A Gigabyte?
A Gigabyte is approximately 1,024 Megabytes. A Gigabyte is a very common term used these days when referring to disk space or drive storage. 1 Gigabyte of data is almost twice the amount of data that a CD-ROM can hold. But it’s about one thousand times the capacity of a 3-1/2 floppy disk. 1 Gigabyte could hold the contents of about 10 yards of books on a shelf. 100 Gigabytes could hold the entire library floor of academic journals.

What Is A Hard Drive?
A hard disk drive (HDD), commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. Strictly speaking, “drive” refers to a device distinct from its medium, such as a tape drive and its tape, or a floppy disk drive and its floppy disk. Early hard drives had removable media; however, an HDD today is typically a sealed unit (except for a filtered vent hole to equalize air pressure) with fixed media.

Originally, the term “hard” was temporary slang, substituting “hard” for “rigid”, before these drives had an established and universally-agreed-upon name. A hard drive is a rigid-disk drive although it is rarely referred to as such. By way of comparison, a floppy drive (more formally, a diskette drive) has a disc that is flexible. Some time ago, IBM’s internal company term for a hard drive was “file”.

Hard drives (introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM accounting computer) were originally developed for use with general purpose computers.

In the 21st century, applications for hard drives have expanded to include digital video recorders, digital audio players, personal digital assistants, digital cameras and video game consoles.

In 2005 the first mobile phones to include hard drives were introduced by Samsung and Nokia. The need for large-scale, reliable storage, independent of a particular device, led to the introduction of configurations such as RAID arrays, network attached storage (NAS) systems and storage area network (SAN) systems that provide efficient and reliable access to large volumes of data. Note that although not immediately recognizable as a computer, all the aforementioned applications are actually embedded computing devices of some sort.

What Is A Solid State Hard Drive?
A new phenomenon in hard drive technology. A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Unlike flash-based memory cards and USB flash drives, a SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive.

The original usage of the term solid-state (from solid-state physics) refers to the use of semiconductor devices rather than electron tubes, but has in this context been adopted to distinguish solid-state electronics from electromechanical devices as well. With no moving parts, solid-state drives are inherently less fragile than hard disks and therefore also silent (unless a cooling fan is used); as there are no mechanical delays, they usually enjoy low access time and latency.

SSDs have begun to appear in laptops, although they are at present substantially more expensive per unit of capacity than hard drives.

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