missing HD space

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Post by alex.barylski »

Incase your still curious...

Articles are always... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
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NTFS isn't bad, it just takes alot of space. 20 GB really isn't that bad. My laptop has 20Gb harddrive and I still have half of it left.

Unless you are an audiophile of some sort I really don't see anyone filling 300GB with personal stuff.

For the record, on that 20gb drive, right now, I have Macromedia Sutdio 8, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Visual Studio (latest), and Server 2003.

Aside from a tad bit of music, there isn't much on it, and it still has everything I need.
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I have 1TB of total space right now on my main computer.. as of right now, 363GB is available. I'm not an excessive audiophile; I do allow for compression of the audio and video I keep.

Lots of art and code is pretty much everything.

I may be an extreme case, but there are others out there that can easily beat my storage needs.

But I digress. I agree NTFS isn't bad; it's the best available for Windows, but it does have some performance and storage disadvantages to some others available for other operating systems.
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I have a 160 GB hd. When it's completely clear I get 149 of that. I just use it as a backup (since its external i can take it anywhere I need) Works good for the purpose... and 11/160 gigs isn't that much.
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Wow, feyd. lol.

I have every Tool CD, Dirt and Best of Alice in Chains, every A Perfect Circle CD, all the System of a Down CD's and that is enough for me.. lol.
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Did used to horde music but I don't download or anything these days. I think the main thing I use my computer for is command line stuff, browsing devnet, writing code and of course pr0n :P
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yup,kinda the same here (minus the pron) For my 120 GB it turns it to around 111GB (im not sure if it is the same for linux OS also)
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Re: missing HD space

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vchris wrote:I just bought a 300gb Seagate HD. It's installed and working great except there is only 280gb available when it says other places I have 300gb. BIOS says 300gb, another tool from seagate says just a bit more than 300gb... I know the file system takes space but 20gb????

Is this normal?!
If you reformat your drive using a larger sector size the filesystem will use less space, but small files will use more disk space. ie a 300byte file would use 1mb instead of 500k. If most of your files are large, like MP3, WAV, Video etc, then you might save some space by increasing the sector size. Your drive has the storage capacity listed on the package. You were not mislead.

I do however find companies such as HP, DELL and Gateway to be very misleading. Your sold a computer with a given storage capacity, but 10GB of it is used as a recovery partition, and they refuse to send you recovery CD's so you can delete it. That in my opinion is very wrong.
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