Creating disk space usage report with Disk Space Inspector - by Brad Woolery

Well-formed disk space usage reports are a cornerstone of successful hard drives space management both in home and corporate environments. However, most operating systems, including the latest versions of Windows, lack the disk space usage reporting feature. This obviously leads to a problem: without proper disk analysis and reporting tools massive HDD clusters turn into data landfills, pretty fast.

This article focuses on one of the most sophisticated third party disk space usage reporting tools available – Disk Space Inspector by AdvexSoft. This application sets the new standards in HDD space reporting solutions due to the fact it utilizes the latest file system access and data processing technologies around. You can find Disk Space Inspector installed on large office networks as well as on private computers around US. Let us have a closer look at how Disk Space Inspector may help you track disk space usage.

I believe the first major point we should consider is ‘what are the requirements for a comprehensive disk space usage report'? Most of us will agree, that a good report should display disk space distribution between folders (metaphor for human hierarchical information representation model), so that we can clearly determine the tendency.

Advanced users would definitely prefer to go further and see which sub-folders and files take most disk space in order to determine primary backup sources as well as obsolete file system objects.

System and network administrators would love the ability to take even closer look at disk space distribution and data ownership. With disk space usage reports generated by Disk Space Inspector it is easy to watch users exceeding disk space quotas and re-distribute network disk space between users basing on the actual demand.

Disk Space Inspector reports are perfect for all the groups of computer specialists and enthusiasts mentioned above. Talking serious disk space analysis, I would like to mention automatic batch reports generation feature of the application in focus.

You can include custom data in reports, specify which file and folder attributes and parameters should be re-presented in report generate multiple reports for various file system objects. Once you are decided, all you have to do is press ‘Create Report' button and voila – the most comprehensive disk space usage report is on your screen.

As for reports structure, Disk Space Inspector offers a multitude of reporting formats: from hypertext HTML reports and industry-standard CSV reports to graphical pie and bar charts available in a variety of popular graphical formats. This fact, in conjunction with support for various file system types support, makes Disk Space Inspector the most versatile disk space reporting solution for any type of computing environment!