How Can I Figure Out My Hard Drive Size?

Alvin writes:

How can I find out what size my Hard Drive is on my 15inch Mac­book Pro.
Its proces­sor speed only says 1.87???THANKS

One way to do this is by look­ing for the Mac­in­tosh HD icon on your desk­top like this:

Macintosh HD

Right click (or CTRL-click if you’re using a sin­gle but­ton mouse or a lap­top) on the icon and you should see this:

Get Info

Left click on ‘Get Info.’

The screen that appears next should have a bunch of infor­ma­tion about your hard drive, and in the ‘Gen­eral’ sec­tion (you may have to click the tri­an­gle to open up the infor­ma­tion) you should see this:

Hard drive size

The capac­ity on this com­puter states 111.47GB which is actu­ally a 120GB hard drive (visit this wikipedia entry for an expla­na­tion of why the dif­fer­ence in sizes under the sec­tion titled ‘Con­sumer Con­fu­sion). It’s got 27.81GB avail­able and 83.66GB used.


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2 Responses to “How Can I Figure Out My Hard Drive Size?”

  1. Greg B 26. Feb, 2008 at 2:43 pm #

    You can also open any Finder win­dow and it will tell you the size and remain­ing space of the par­ent drive cen­tred at the bot­tom of the Finder win­dow. Easy!

  2. Chris 28. Apr, 2008 at 10:00 pm #

    That may have changed in Leop­ard (don’t have a Tiger machine handy to check) — in Leop­ard the Finder just shows how much space is available.

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