DiskSpaceExhaustionPredictor

Given the increasingly lower prices and better reliability of modern internal storage devices, many avid media consumers decide to create their own Netflix alternative by re-purposing older computers into low-powered servers housing digital copies extracted from their physically-owned counterparts for more flexibility. One way of anticipating a decrease in storage space to add more drives in advance is through DiskSpaceExhaustionPredictor.

Depending on your taste, downloading AAA video games with 4K-quality textures can quickly end up filling the bulk of your computer’s storage. This also applies to custom content for a particular modding-friendly game that you happen to spend a lot of time on for increasing the replayability factor of a brilliantly fleshed-out world and lore whose sequel the developers no longer seem to work on.

The latter habit can be more easily monitored in terms of the size of the downloaded content by manually executing periodic scans through programs such as WinDirStat or its proprietary, yet more feature-rich TreeSize counterpart. However, for an automated alternative, the app at hand may come in handy.

Existing users of TreeSize’s Professional version have access to its export capabilities for retrieving a file containing the history of the scanning operations. Once downloaded, summoning a terminal in the same folder as DiskSpaceExhaustionPredictor lets users analyze the file’s contents in order to receive a rough estimation of how long it would take for the remaining free disk space to be filled.

This approach lets users decide whether they should cut down on the content they frequently download or extend their existing storage, in case the existing items are pivotal to their workflows or media consumption habits.

Whether you currently run a local server with very limited space or you simply wish to avoid the issues accompanying insufficient space for ongoing downloads and other types of tasks, DiskSpaceExhaustionPredictor may be the right tool for the job.