Xinorbis: Hard core hard drive analyzer

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Xinorbis: Hard core hard drive analyzer

by Brad Linder Jan 4th 2008

If you're the sort of person who starts to feel like your new PC with the 250GB hard drive is running out of space about two days after you bring it home from the store, hard disk space analyzers can be your best friend. While we're big fans of WinDirStat for finding the largest files and folders on a disk, Xinorbis packs a few features that WinDirStat lacks.

For example, not only does Xinorbis analyze all of the files on your hard drive, but it will actually sort them into categories like music/sound, movies, programs, graphics, and system files. You can view the results in a pie or bar chart. And you can customize Xinorbis to show files by frequency or size. You can also compare two different hard drives.

Depending on your hard drive size and how many files you've got, it can take a while to run Xinorbis, and it may seem to be unresponsive, but don't give up hope. Odds are it's still working. For ease of use, we still like WinDirStat, but Xinorbis looks like a great tool to have for detailed disk space analysis.

[via gHacks

Tags: analysis, disk-space, windirstat, xinorbis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bruno Padinha said 6:21PM on 1-04-2008

Haven't tried it yet, but doesn't WinDirStat extension summary do a similar job of telling you the categories of files taking more space?

Claude said 8:30AM on 1-05-2008

Just tried it.
Unfortunately you cannot delete the files directly from Xinorbis, whereas WinDirStat allows it. Or may be I did not find the 'delete' option. :)

Jason said 11:26AM on 1-05-2008

The only app I've found in a long time that freezes my computer.

Dylan said 3:22PM on 1-05-2008

A good app to measure/analyze hard drive space for OS X is called WhatSize

http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/

kojo87 said 4:13PM on 1-05-2008

im gonna try this. my 320GB only has about 20% left

kojo87 said 5:43PM on 1-05-2008

and it locked up my system. im gonna try WinDirStat instead

AOL-my-crater said 9:29AM on 1-06-2008

Hmmm... I like it. Smart, effective and enough speedy program. No problms. Thanks to author!

mmmork said 3:41PM on 1-07-2008

If you want lightweight old-school check sequoiaview http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//

This didn't freeze my machine, but it's bloody heavy and slow. Nice enough, but I'll stick with little 'n light.

Bakkman said 8:11AM on 1-10-2008

All I got while trying to scan was an "Integer overflow" error message.

personally I use Scanner. Not heavy with the features, but works great for me.

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/scn2.zip

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