New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in notebook storage.
Pcworld has an the whole article on this, thought people would like to know they will soon be able to buy a bigger and better hard drive. 🙂 Laptops will soon have a 1 TB, I am betting on it!!
Like the concept of Leopard’s Time Machine but aren’t running Leopard on your machine? The IMHO weblog steps through how to mimic the backup chops of Leopard using the rsync command line tool. By default rsync is Unix-only tool, but we’ve covered how to use rsync on Windows as well, so this method applies to pretty much everyone. And while you won’t get the stylish graphical interface of Leopard’s Time Machine, you will get incremental, full backups of your drive.
Windows 98/XP/2000 only: Want to keep better tabs on your drive and partition space without having to right-click or open “My Computer”? Free application Vista Drive Icon replaces the standard hard drive icons with Vista-style models that display how much space is taken up and turn red when nearly full. The program runs in the background, shows up in almost every folder view and uses only a small amount of memory. If you’re seeing red a bit too often, check out Gina’s guide to visualizing your hard drive usage to make clean-up fast and easy. Vista Drive Icon is a free download and runs on Windows versions earlier than Vista.
Mac OS X only: Freeware application SpaceControl keeps watch of your hard drive space and alerts you when you’re getting low on free space. The application lives in your Mac’s menu bar and displays the total amount of free space available on all drives. You can also set alerts to notify you with a simple system sound or with an email when your startup disk drops below a threshold you define. In general iStat Menus is an excellent menu bar app for monitoring you system (including hard drives), but if you have trouble keeping enough free space on your drive, SpaceControl might be for you. SpaceControl is freeware, Mac OS X only.
It’s official: you can now buy a 320GB drive from WD for your laptop, and for just $200. The WD Scorpio SATA drive spins at 5400rpm and has a 8MB cache. The press release says it’s “extraordinarily quiet while running at cool operating temperatures.” I hope that doesn’t mean it’s extremely loud while running at super high temperatures. The important thing is, this timing coincides with the arrival of Mac’s Time Machine and the Windows Home Server, two easy ways to offload your laptop’s entire contents, swap out the internal drive, then restore your old image without a lot of tinkering. I know some of you like tinkering, but this is the future. [WD]
Nice now we can have even more space on the Laptop!!
