The storage space on a computer is a precious asset, it is not unlimited and it is always important to have enough free space on the computer so that our equipment works without performance problems. Know the capacity of our hard drive allows us to establish limits of use.
Limits of use that go through not using the PC as a warehouse where everything fits. Depending on the use you make of your equipment, it is likely that you have decided to change the hard drive, but first of all, we must know how much hard disk does our PC have.
Like to know what processor has our PC or the amount of RAM memory that our PC has, to know how much hard disk we have, we have different methods, all of them equally valid and that at no time do they require installing third-party applications.
BIOS
The BIOS is, to call it something, the operating system of the motherboard of our equipment, plate to which all the components that are part of it are connected. By accessing the BIOS (each manufacturer offers a different method) we can access the information of the hard disk, the processor and the RAM memory, in addition to allowing us to modify the operating values of the equipment, values that we should not modify if we do not know what we are touching.
This team
Within the This computer section, located in the left column of the file manager, we can access both the free space on our hard drive and its total size. If our team has more than one hard drive, this information will also be shown in this section.
If you plan to change the hard drive for a larger one, perhaps you should consider keeping the current hard drive to use to store information and buy an SSD to install the operating system and the applications, in order to gain a lot of speed both when starting our computer and when executing applications.