SquirrelDisk

Disk management is something that we all have to do every once in a while. With software requiring more space, and storage generally becoming cheaper, it's easy to lose track of what's eating up your drive. You never know how much space is wasted until you look for it, so how do you do that? It's fine to go the manual route, but software exists to make life easier.

SquirrelDisk looks through your drives to provide you with an overview of the allocation of your storage. It's all very simple and intuitive, and if you want to go deeper, the software can show you a per-folder breakdown.

It doesn't take long to get accustomed to how the tool works: after all, there are no menus to navigate through, settings to change, or any such thing. Boot it up, and it'll detect your drives. Click the one you want to inspect, and a pie chart of the storage apportionment will be displayed.

The biggest offenders in terms of storage size will be presented first, and if you have a folder you want to take a closer look at, the tool can show you a breakdown of each of the files within.

If there's something that needs deleting, the drag-and-drop functionality takes care of it. Essentially, dragging the files and folders that you want to erase to the bottom of the interface will allow you to handily delete them, and this is handled in less than 3 clicks.

A strange issue I encountered was that the software couldn't detect my C:/ drive, even when launched with elevated rights. I wasn't able to find a fix for it, so I'll chalk it up as a bug of sorts.

SquirrelDisk is as simple as they come, really — the tool works decently, and if you're looking to do a storage cleanup soon, consider giving it a try.