Advanced Disk Space Monitor

Working with projects that involve huge files, such as video editing, has its own share of problems. The main one is running out of disk space, which can happen at an inopportune time and you can lose hours of work. With Advanced Disk Space Monitor, you can know that your disk will run out of space well before it actually happens. The application can notify you according to your own rules, so you can take the necessary steps to save your work before it's too late.

Advanced Disk Space Monitor is free to try, without any significant restrictions. It comes in a small package and it can be installed in no time. Though you have to go through a standard installation process, you will encounter an interesting option, which allows you to make Advanced Disk Space Monitor work as a service, rather than an application.

The user interface has a simple design and its controls come in a small number and they are quite easy to master. The software presents a list of your local and removable drives, which includes various details, like capacity, used and free space and so on. You can define your own rules, regarding how the application will notify you, below this list, through simple controls, like check boxes or drop menus.

Besides on-screen notifications, the software can provide you with email notifications, which means that you can be away from your computer and still know if a drive is about to run out of space. You can set the software to send regular reports, even if there is no emergency. What's more, you can define a free space threshold, at which Advanced Disk Space Monitor can send notifications.

To help you figure out what files take up most of the space on a drive or in a specific folder, Advanced Disk Space Monitor comes with a built-in space usage analyzer. All you have to do is select a folder and the software will display all its contents in a list, in order, from the largest to the smallest item.

With Advanced Disk Space Monitor working on your computer, you will know if your hard drive is about to run out of space way before it happens, even if you are not in front of your computer.