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cidlockie
Aug 10, 2011Aspirant
Odd disk space behaviour
I have a ReadyNAS Duo, with two drives of 500GB each. Frontview tells me they are 88% full (407GB), but as far as I can see the files on the drives take up no more than about 200GB. The second dri...
cidlockie
Aug 15, 2011Aspirant
What confuses me is I've copied all the files to my PC's internal drive and the resulting directory is less than 200GB. Just because it's a different drive I can't see why it would claim it takes up more space for the exact same set of files.
But never mind, I'll just upgrade to the bigger the drives as you suggest (and hope it doesn't immediately tell me there is 1.8TB of space used up already...)
Thanks PapaBear.
But never mind, I'll just upgrade to the bigger the drives as you suggest (and hope it doesn't immediately tell me there is 1.8TB of space used up already...)
Thanks PapaBear.
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