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Disk Space Forest

Submitted by: _Matt_
Created: Jan 7, 2007, 10:52 am

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For geeks who want to see the beauty of their hardrive. It can be a is a reality that is really, er, real!. Unlike other disk space / net work programs our product is teh best!.

The Idea

An application that uses 3D populations of trees that represent the percentage of disk space used.

Its a visually pleasing way to see how much space you have left, and can also double as a disk management tool: forest management can help group more frequently used filegroups together. Forestation can be moved in clumps and groups and positioned closed or further away from other forests. Automated defragmentation of the forest can give you a fun way to keep your filestore defragged. It could be a visual aid to how your files are stored, and a good way to help you keep your disk defragged and How Well it is Defragmented in a visual manner. (I and many others defragment their disks most of the time, but others do not. A well defragmented machine can mean a faster machine.)

If it could be integrated into the desktop, this would be excellent on something like vista where a 3D version on the desktop can be managed in a quotblack and whitequot way.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Productivity plant -chr() disk space forest. Just seemed a natural step...

More about the idea:

http://oomattoo.word...ragmentation-forest/

Comments Posted

dawning Posted: January 8, 2007, 11:12 am

Neat - though the associated additional disk IO could wind up being a performance blackhole.. Still.. I like it.

_Matt_ Posted: January 8, 2007, 1:12 pm

You don't have to have the program running all the time in the background, you could have a render update of the forest after a period of time.

The thing about basing it on the file system is that theres no data to hold except the rules of the system: less to hold in memory. And if you only display a fraction of the whole and organise on an "overview" mode then even better.

_Matt_ Posted: January 10, 2007, 7:11 am

Closest I've found to this idea is

http://lifehacker.co...ive-usage-219058.php

Which looks crap. surely a forest type management thing would be loads better :)

_Matt_ Posted: January 15, 2007, 9:29 am

Also found this one which has more of the functionality but still looks crap

http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/

Brenden Posted: April 20, 2007, 10:19 pm

i like this

fossiloflife Posted: June 13, 2007, 6:13 am

interestin

ecahoon Posted: June 13, 2007, 7:51 pm

Can you fix the URL pointing to the concept?

Rather than display showing information about the hard drive, how about a display showing information about the information on the hard drive. Take a look at x1.com and brainstorm from there.

Kevin_Cox Posted: June 13, 2007, 7:55 pm

I don't know if people would pay money for this, aside from the possibility of it looking nice the tool basically has no actually use.

vanhees Posted: June 14, 2007, 6:20 am

Kevin just said what I wanted to say. It might look cool.
Tommy

Brenden Posted: June 14, 2007, 1:29 pm

not bad but i would not pay for it

bshumate Posted: June 14, 2007, 3:28 pm

Disk space problems got you down?

# cd /home
# rm -rf 'du -s * | sort -rn | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'';

DO NOT TRY THIS AT /home ;-)

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