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nubinetwork a day ago

> 46x faster than windirstat

Thats a pretty bold claim, but is it really that much faster?

toast0 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I just ran it for the first time... I've run windirstat many times including in the last two weeks and yes, this is very fast. According to its timing it took 3.63 seconds to scan my drive... I'm not sure if it really took almost 3 minutes for windirstat, but it did take a long time, so it's plausible. More importantly, ~ 4 seconds is much easier to wait for.

butvacuum 18 hours ago | parent [-]

windirstat currently doesn't take 3min to index 500k+ files on an 8x8tb drive raidz2 that's 90% full. When I stopped using windoratat 3ish years ago it took a few minutes to index the same array.

I think you might he using an old version, or have an issue with your storage.

nxrabl a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It is - it ‘cheats’ by reading off the NTFS MFT, similarly to another indispensable piece of Windows software Everything Search, both of which I miss keenly on my underprovisioned work Mac.