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An Essential Hard Disk Tool

Tony Zilles

You know your hard disk is brimming, but which of the 2, 000 folders is accumulating files faster than you can clear them out? Here’s a tool that helps you pinpoint where your hard disk space is being used.

Hard disk issues continue to haunt each and every computer user. In spite of hard disks capacities beginning to sound like intergalactic distances, and prices per unit still plummeting, Fengali’s Fourth Law of Hard Disks is still as true today as when it was first proposed… "The volume of material to be stored on any hard disk expands to equal or exceed the space available to it." And of course Ted the Tosser’s astute observation still rings true... "Every computer shall only ever have a maximum of five percent of hard disk space free, regardless of the stated capacity of the disk in question."

So what’s going on? Why is all your hard disk space just disappearing?

Windows has much to answer for. Sure, it protects us from much of the nuts-and-bolts of computing, but it is also a blind that obscures our view of the files that it uses in everyday operation. Windows and Windows applications tend to create temporary files and sprinkle them around with gay abandon. That would not necessarily be a bad thing, but like a good cook, they rarely clean up after the event. Add to that the sloppy practices that are file inefficient and neglect good housekeeping practice common in contemporary application development and you have creation, installation and abandonment of mass files that simply waste space. And it's not all Windows' fault either. Sometimes we just install more software than we really need. That can also rob valuable applications of the space they need.

Whatever the reason for you having too many files in too many folders, the nub of the problem is determining, where the majority of files is located and this is where we finally get to the subject of this article.

I have long craved the use of some kind of tool that would show me graphically where files were building up my hard disk. By graphically, I mean in terms of a bar chart or pie chart illustrating comparative volumes of folders.

DiskFrontier is just the thing to identify where all your hard disk space is being used.

When I stumbled across DiskFrontier I knew I'd found the answer to this nagging problem. The shareware DiskFrontier gives you a fast graphical representation of your hard disk real estate. It’s a choice example of a small, almost insignificant application, which performs an extremely valuable function. Using DiskFrontier, you can quickly determine where your disk overload is occurring and take appropriate action. The ease and speed with which disk space is shown makes zooming in on high growth zones very easy.

Nice features include color bars indicating files read/written in the last 30 days and the ability to toggle the numbers between percentages, bytes and several other options.

It’s not new, it's not particularly fancy. It is extremely useful and good value.

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