...down hard-drive memory like a mo'fo.
I recently tried to defrag my PC (running windows xp media center) and was promptly prompted that I couldn't because I only have 1% of my 250GB hard drive free.
It took me a while to think of what I had on my hard drive that was taking up that much space. I only have a few hundred MP3 and I don't download movies. Eventually it dawned on me to see if the few television shows I'd recorded in Media Center were using much memory. I rarely us MC, especially since we got digital-hi-def cable with a DVR a year ago. So I opened the "recorded shows" section and saw that I had 67 programs recorded! Yikes!
Apparently, I had set it to record every new episode of Scrubs, The Office and Smallville back in 2007. And it has continued to do so ever since. I deleted all the shows and that freed up 170GB. That's like 3 GB per HOUR.
