How do I check to see WHAT'S using up the most storage.

I have a 500gb Drive but only 11 free.  Wanted the best way to see what's using up space.  I can randomly hit command I on folders and check that way, but was wondering if there was a way to see a document or spreadsheet, or pie chart of everything taking up space.  Thanks all.

Not really, no.  I'm sure there's probably a command-line program that might give you similar information, but that's not for the faint of heart.
If you are feeling brave you could try something like this:
open
Applications > Utilities > Terminal
and in the Terminal Window type:
find the Path to the folder -ls | cut -c 48-200 | sort -rn | more
this will create a directory listing for all the files in the folder and its subfolders and sort them reverse by size and print a listing. The first column contains the file size in Bytes and pipes the listing thru more. You will have to enter  a blank to advance and a q to quit.
For example, on my MBP the following command gives this result:
find /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/The\ Beatles -ls | cut -c 48-200 | sort -rn | more
[Eliza:~] dreschle% find /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/The\ Beatles -ls | cut -c 48-200 | sort -rn | more
    7169513 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/1-13 Hey Jude.m4a
    6881372  6 Feb 07:15 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/1/21 Hey Jude.m4a
    5192915 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/1-06 A Day In The Life.m4a
    4875828 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/2-02 While My Guitar Gently Weeps.m4a
    4684951 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/1-08 I Am The Walrus.m4a  ......
and I see that from all Beatles albums I own the biggest is "Hey Jude" with 7 MB
If you want to use this command often you could create a shell script, an an apple script or an automator Workflow.
Good Luck
Leonie Lionheart

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