Get A New Hard Disk For Your Mac Or Clean House?
I have a 500 gigabyte hard disk on my Mac and it’s not large enough. Where do all those files come from? Who put them there? What do they do?
Should I buy a bigger hard disk or clean house? I decided to clean house first. Here’s what I found. Plenty of files I didn’t know I had.
Wil, my significant, and reasonable, other (or, is it “reasonably significant?”) convinced me to put all our video clips on the Mac. I did. And promptly ran out of space.
Ran out? How is that.... (excerpted).
2 Reader Comments
Randy said:
Hands down the way to go is to use Grandperspective. It’s free and excellent in quickly displaying your data in various forms. The best way I have found to clean up your drive quickly.
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Hard Drives R Us said:
You need to shop around! 750 GB HDs do not run $300 a piece these days. (Even bigger drives do eventually get filled up without a house cleaning though.)
You might consider a separate data drive as $$$ permit for all your videos & etc rather than cluttering up your boot drive with all that stuff.
If you are in no rush, the prices of 1 TB drives should be coming down before too long, but shop around!