Thursday, February 4, 2010

[TOOLS] Need to know what's taking up space on your hard drive?

A coworker of mine recommended WinDirStat, which is actually pretty cool. It ran pretty quickly (on a 240 gb hard drive that's 80% full, it finished in about two minutes). It tells you directory breakdowns of which is the largest folder, and allows you to drill down to see the files.

It also has a good visual graph of your hard drive, allowing you to see from a glance what types of files (and which, if you mouse over the section) take up the most space.

This only works on Windows of course. *nix users have easy console commands for this :(

1 comment:

  1. hmmill need to check this out for my next mandatory windows box format.

    ReplyDelete