About the advantage of the disk space analysis
Today we’re talking about the advantage of the disk space analysis. For what it is necessary, what functions it carries out, what gives to the user. In the end we’ll give some recommendations for choice of the universal application for the disk space analysis.
Computer consists of huge number of folders and files. There can be ten thousands of them in some computers. To check such data manually is impossible. Think – how much folders and files you usually face a day? As a rule several tens, 200-300 maximum. Even such volume of data one can’t structure – you need to remember where what folder is, how it is called, what files it includes, what its size is. Even at a permanent job it is difficult to remember more than 400-500 elements (files and directories). For the search of data we don’t often work with it’s necessary to use improvised means like “Search”. Thus, sooner or later before the user the problem arises how to structure data for the navigation was intuitive based on the structure logic.
On the other hand, to create such structure (i.e. to classify and locate the data) you also need some initial information. We come to the necessity of the data analysis. Such analysis, I repeat, is necessary in two cases – when you need to create the ordered structure of the data (you should know something about the data for this) and when it is necessary to explore the current structure of the ordered data. Why? Because the computer is a “live” system constantly exchanging with an environment in which the data constantly change their structure. For this reason data monitoring is so important – you should know how the structure has changed, if it has lost sense after considerable the information update, if this structure has collapsed. As well as any difficult system, PC needs to be taken a permanent care – we should always know the condition of its “health”, diagnose arising “illnesses” and to be engaged in “treatment”. Without the disk space analysis it is impossible.
At last here are some advices for the choice of disk usage analysis tool. We are generating them in the form of requirements to the program:
1) Simplicity
2) Functionality
3) Cheapness
4) Convenience
5) Interactivity
6) Visuality
Tomorrow we’ll found out how these requirements will be considered at the choice of the concrete application.
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