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- Shocked that a 1K file takes 1Meg of disk space on my new 5TB drive
I used to know all about the FAT file structure and sectors and clusters and stuff but have forgotten it all. I was shocked to find that the new 5TB external HD I bought takes 1Meg to store a 1Kb file (and any file less than 1Meg).
Is this standard on drives over 4TB ?
Is there some other more reasonable size that some huge drives have or do I just have to live w/ this?
Why I care: It's a major bummer because I did a full back up of 303GB (326GB on disk) of mixed-sized files and it took 893Gigs on the disk (also 5 hours, but I didn't mind that). As a consequence, I'll be able to do only 1/3rd as many such archived backups as I had expected.
Is this standard on drives over 4TB ?
Is there some other more reasonable size that some huge drives have or do I just have to live w/ this?
Why I care: It's a major bummer because I did a full back up of 303GB (326GB on disk) of mixed-sized files and it took 893Gigs on the disk (also 5 hours, but I didn't mind that). As a consequence, I'll be able to do only 1/3rd as many such archived backups as I had expected.