http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:08:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-746422 infoyourway.com » OverDisk Displays Your Disk Usage as a Radial Map [Downloads] Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:20:18 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-746422 [...] Once the results are back, you can mouse over the wedges on the radial map to see which folders and files are chewing up your disk space. If the wedges are too small to select with ease, clicking on any given directory in the radial map will re-render the map with the sub-directories and files for that specific location. The graphics might be primitive by modern standards, but the response time is lightening fast and the interface is easy to use. According to the author’s site, he’s working out a bug where multiple refreshes can lead to a crash, but during our testing, zooming around multiple disks and terabytes worth of data, there wasn’t a glitch to be found. OverDisk is freeware, Windows only. OverDisk [via gHacks] [...] [...] Once the results are back, you can mouse over the wedges on the radial map to see which folders and files are chewing up your disk space. If the wedges are too small to select with ease, clicking on any given directory in the radial map will re-render the map with the sub-directories and files for that specific location. The graphics might be primitive by modern standards, but the response time is lightening fast and the interface is easy to use. According to the author’s site, he’s working out a bug where multiple refreshes can lead to a crash, but during our testing, zooming around multiple disks and terabytes worth of data, there wasn’t a glitch to be found. OverDisk is freeware, Windows only. OverDisk [via gHacks] [...]

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-746419 OverDisk Displays Your Disk Usage as a Radial Map [Downloads] | PingBrain Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:19:29 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-746419 [...] Once the results are back, you can mouse over the wedges on the radial map to see which folders and files are chewing up your disk space. If the wedges are too small to select with ease, clicking on any given directory in the radial map will re-render the map with the sub-directories and files for that specific location. The graphics might be primitive by modern standards, but the response time is lightening fast and the interface is easy to use. According to the author’s site, he’s working out a bug where multiple refreshes can lead to a crash, but during our testing, zooming around multiple disks and terabytes worth of data, there wasn’t a glitch to be found. OverDisk is freeware, Windows only. OverDisk [via gHacks] [...] [...] Once the results are back, you can mouse over the wedges on the radial map to see which folders and files are chewing up your disk space. If the wedges are too small to select with ease, clicking on any given directory in the radial map will re-render the map with the sub-directories and files for that specific location. The graphics might be primitive by modern standards, but the response time is lightening fast and the interface is easy to use. According to the author’s site, he’s working out a bug where multiple refreshes can lead to a crash, but during our testing, zooming around multiple disks and terabytes worth of data, there wasn’t a glitch to be found. OverDisk is freeware, Windows only. OverDisk [via gHacks] [...]

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-746369 McColley.net » Blog Archive » OverDisk Displays Your Disk Usage as a Radial Map [Downloads] Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:29:38 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-746369 [...] Once the results are back, you can mouse over the wedges on the radial map to see which folders and files are chewing up your disk space. If the wedges are too small to select with ease, clicking on any given directory in the radial map will re-render the map with the sub-directories and files for that specific location. The graphics might be primitive by modern standards, but the response time is lightening fast and the interface is easy to use. According to the author’s site, he’s working out a bug where multiple refreshes can lead to a crash, but during our testing, zooming around multiple disks and terabytes worth of data, there wasn’t a glitch to be found. OverDisk is freeware, Windows only. OverDisk [via gHacks] [...] [...] Once the results are back, you can mouse over the wedges on the radial map to see which folders and files are chewing up your disk space. If the wedges are too small to select with ease, clicking on any given directory in the radial map will re-render the map with the sub-directories and files for that specific location. The graphics might be primitive by modern standards, but the response time is lightening fast and the interface is easy to use. According to the author’s site, he’s working out a bug where multiple refreshes can lead to a crash, but during our testing, zooming around multiple disks and terabytes worth of data, there wasn’t a glitch to be found. OverDisk is freeware, Windows only. OverDisk [via gHacks] [...]

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-744806 Rarst Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:09:04 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-744806 For a second title scared me into thinking "More SpaceSniffer reviews!?". Heh, that one is making way fast through tech blogs and it is indeed one of the best treemap visualizations for hard drive I had seen. For a second title scared me into thinking “More SpaceSniffer reviews!?”. Heh, that one is making way fast through tech blogs and it is indeed one of the best treemap visualizations for hard drive I had seen.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-744751 OAlexander Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:19:44 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-744751 S. also SequoiaView ( http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/ ), which has been around since 2002 or longer. It does a good job and has customizable mode. S. also SequoiaView ( http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/ ), which has been around since 2002 or longer. It does a good job and has customizable mode.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-744728 Martin Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:58:38 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-744728 I think that all of the programs do their job ;) I think that all of the programs do their job ;)

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-744683 Dotan Cohen Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:17:56 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-744683 Wow, that looks like a clone of KDE's Filelight: http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ Wow, that looks like a clone of KDE’s Filelight:
http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/25/hard-drives-space-visualization/#comment-744653 Paulus Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:54:53 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12341#comment-744653 i am a bit confused this because the developer writes" I've currently stopped working on it, due to a bug in the libraries of the original developing environment." also "and (slightly out-of-date) documentation." and "and the only problem is that it occasionally crashes after several refreshes". Reading all this and more main quistion to you Martin is do you think that for the moment SpaceSniffer is maybay the better option? http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html i am a bit confused this because the developer writes” I’ve currently stopped working on it, due to a bug in the libraries of the original developing environment.” also “and (slightly out-of-date) documentation.” and “and the only problem is that it occasionally crashes after several refreshes”. Reading all this and more main quistion to you Martin is do you think that for the moment SpaceSniffer is maybay the better option?
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

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