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I prefer Wiztree (link below), especially on systems with much larger disks. Since Wiztree works by scanning the MFT it's about an order of magnitude faster than Windirstat or Treesize.

http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-f...

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Hey, thanks for this. Was using WinDirStat. This is really fast! Plus I like the minimalistic interface.

    > Since Wiztree works by scanning the MFT it's
    > about an order of magnitude faster than [...]
    > Treesize.

That's misleading - TreeSize also works by scanning the MFT.

Thanks for the recommendation. faster than "space sniffer" as well.

Sadly as a consequence of this, it can only report file size, not disk usage. If you have a lot of folders with NTFS compression enabled, Wiztree becomes almost useless.

YES! I really wish there were others that scanned the MFT. I don't think Wiztree is as flexible with visualizations.

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