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Sander Rossel21-Mar-21 0:45
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GeneralWhy would one external drive use twice as much space as another for the same net size of files? Pin
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mngerhold21-Mar-21 23:34
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You have 250,000 files occupying ~200GB on the source, so each is on average under 1MB (including the wasted space due to unfilled allocation units, unknown but assume it is small, as it probably will be for NTFS). The allocation unit in the WD is apparently 1MB - on average the wasted space will be half a unit per file, ie 125 GB. But for tiny files the wastage could be nearly 1MB. Could that be the explanantion for most of the difference?
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