Analyze data on Corporate network drive

When you are dealing with hughe number of domain users who put their data on same logical drive (usualy those drives are suited on SAN), for sure you will have need of content inspection of those data. This need comes from many aspects :

- Type of data - are they productive or not ?
- Planing of defragmentation procedure
- Planing for future upgrades of storage space
- Behavior of users and most used filetypes
- Top 10 freespace_eat users
- Duplicate files

For example, if you are dealing with 500 users, and you try to analyze their files which are located on that one logical drive, you will face with thousands folders and files and standard tools are not adequate for such analysis. At the end probably you will have sheets and sheets numbers, names and paths, which I'm sure that you'l agree it is pointless way to analyze.
Therefore I'm using opensource tool named WinDirStat.
This tool is created for administrators who have needs like I've described before. Once you start this tool, read the whole content on selected disk, and after some time you are getting graphical presentation of your disk situation.


After such pretty picture, you will easily have "a clue" what's giing on with that drive and your users.. ...and you can start to do the admin-work ! :)