Monitor Your Disk Space Usage Easily With Disk Inventory X

beelzebozo · Apr 14, 2014

Disk Inventory X is a nifty app that provides a graphical, treemap representation of how your drives are being eaten up by data. Disk Utility provides bare-minimum info such as disk size, free space, and space used but Disk Inventory X breaks down drive usage in a colorful representation by folder size and data types.

It was initially released in 2004 by developer Tjark Derlien but should still work with newer versions of OS X.

Source: http://derlien.com/index.html

morph21 · Apr 18, 2014

I always like these disk usage apps as they more often than not give you an idea of usage you didn't have before.

I'm a frequent user of Daisy Disk, and this one looked like a good alternative, except, in 10.9.2 it shows the sizes totally broken and messed up.

My 1 TB Fusion Drive is shown as 10GB, and all file sizes are messed up.

InsaneCultist · Apr 18, 2014

morph21 said:
My 1 TB Fusion Drive is shown as 10GB, and all file sizes are messed up.

Another for non-working with a Fusion Drive. Works great with my other drives, however. Pretty cool software.
-IC

balazs631 · Apr 18, 2014

SMART Utility is also a very good application for checking disks.

iindigo · Apr 18, 2014

My old standby for this sort of thing is OmniDiskSweeper. It’s bare-bones, but it does its job exceedingly well. I’ve been using it since OS X 10.2 or so.

Chimpur · Apr 18, 2014

I've been pretty happy with Daisy Disk and What Size for a long time now. Though I prefer the design of Daisy Disk more than most other disk cataloguing apps.

genzai · Apr 19, 2014

My go-to (and it still seems to be in development) is grand perspective. pretty sure it would work fine with fusion drives too since you can even scan specific folders with it.

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

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Goekeli · Apr 19, 2014

+1 on Omni, I'll check this out!

NimhOfJoy · May 7, 2014

genzai said:
My go-to (and it still seems to be in development) is grand perspective. pretty sure it would work fine with fusion drives too since you can even scan specific folders with it.

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

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I was just about to comment that this looks a LOT like Grand Perspective. I use both that and OmniDiskSweeper, though this looks like basically a combo of both. Cool app.

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