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#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X INSTALL#
#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X DRIVERS#
#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X PRO#
#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X PC#

All the manufacturers use the same actual drive mechanisms from Hitachi/IBM, Seagate, Maxtor, or Western Digital.JDiskReport is a tool developed in Java that lets you visually check how your disc's storage capacity is being used. It is the firewire bridge chip and its firmware that dictates OS X compatibility.

When you buy a Firewire drive, the unique elements are the case, power supply, and firewire bridge chip.

Later on you will wonder why you didn't buy more

Always buy more capacity than you think you will ever need.

Firewire 800 devices will work on a Firewire 400 bus with a nine pin to six pin connector cable but only at the slower speed.

Remember this when looking for an external hard drive.

#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X PC#

Some PC centric brands basically said, "So what?" A good place to check compatibility issues is the user reports database at XLR8YourMac. There are obviously other brands on the market but there have been compatibility issues with OS X from time to time and these four brands have been quick to fix any compatibility problems that have arisen. Among the brands with a good reputation for supporting Macs are LaCie, Granite Digital, Other World Computing, and Maxtor. You may be buying another user's problem without knowing it. I would be leery of firewire drives purchased on eBay. if your computer is on and if the system is not asleep! The cache files are also supposed to be self limiting, but sometimes they do seem to accumulate. The system automatically rotates and archives the log files every night around 3:00 to 5:00 A.M. The files for a one hour iDVD project can easily eat up 30 GB (I have a couple that will prove that.) Hope you have a SuperDrive and some blank DVD-Rs, you are going to need the storage space.

#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X PRO#

If that happens try TechTool Pro 4 or Diskwarrior 3.Ĭlick to expand.Movies! Bet money that is where most of your disk space has gone. If problems are found and repaired, rerun Disk Utility until no more errors are found or Disk Utility reports irreparable errors.

#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X INSTALL#

Boot from the install CD or another bootable volume and run Disk Utility > Repair Disk and see if any problems are detected.

Adding an external firewire hard drive to your systemįinally the problem may be the file system is already damaged and yielding a false report.

Adding a second internal hard drive to your system if possible.

Replacing your hard drive with a substantially larger one.

Warning: any time the free space on your hard drive falls below 15% there is a greatly increased risk of irreparable damage to your file system occurring, so you probably need to clean out a lot more disk space than you think you do to get below the 15% free space level. Just remember you can delete a song in iTunes and unless you specify that you also want the file deleted it is still taking up the same amount of disk space. Then your only choice is which are you willing to delete.

Be careful with any utility of this type because it will let you delete almost any file on the system and used injudiciously can quickly render OS X inoperative and unrecoverable.Īmong the user's files, music, photo, and video files can eat MegaBytes of disk space in nothing flat. WhatSize is a handy freeware utility that will scan all your visible and invisible files and folders and rank them by size so you at least know where your disk space is going.

Just remember this is a temporary gain and you will have to repeat this step periodically to stay ahead of the accumulation. Run Cocktail or Onyx to clean up the log files, archived logs, and cache files and you will probably gain a whole lot more disk space than deleting unneeded language localization files and print drivers. Add t that, running Monolingual and ditching any unneeded language localization files will yield you a net gain of a few, very few, MegaBytes, but certainly not not GigaBytes.

#JDISKREPORT MAC OS X DRIVERS#

Stripping out unused printer drivers has already been suggested. Since we have no idea what is on your startup drive or how big it is in the first place, this is almost an impossible question to answer.