IYou can buy and install a 250GB hard drive on Monday, and by Friday it feels like you're already out of space. There's no shortage of applications to help you manage your drives and show you where all your space is going, but Xinorbis is one of the best that I've seen. Xinorbis can analyze a drive or set of folder and tell you what types of files are inside and how much space you're losing to what kinds of files, all from inside an attractive interface that puts other similar apps to shame.
Xinorbis can analyze entire hard drives, network shares and mapped network drives, and individual directories. If you're curious as to what's taking up all your hard drive space, you can use the app to scan your entire system; but if you're concerned just with exactly how much of your downloads folder is, for example music versus movies, Xinorbis can tell you. The app includes shell support and allows you to launch straight from a directory that you'd like to scan. Once Xinorbis completes a scan, it generates a report that you can save for future reference and comparison later.
Xinorbis has a few features that make it noticeably more effective than other drive analyzers. Not only will the app scan your drive and tell you how much storage is being used by what files and folders, Xinorbis can break down that allocation by file type. For example, Xinorbis can tell you that the bulk of your hard drive is being eaten by music or movies, as opposed to documents and programs. You can also sort by file type if you wish, and see how much of your available space is occupied by MP3s versus AACs.
The interface is intelligently designed and reveals a great deal of information in one view. For example, one display can show you the ratio of file types on the drive, a run-down of file sizes on the drives, and a graph of subdirectories and their contents. Similar applications can show you similar information, but not in the same view.
Fans of faster apps, such as WinDirStat and SequoiaView, will miss the ability to delete files straight from the application and won't be pleased with how long Xinorbis takes to analyze your drive or directories, but they'll be pleased with the multiple views and wealth of reporting capabilities. Xinorbis is free, and supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista.
[ via DownloadSquad ]
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