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[Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net>]

understanding it is way beyond what my little ole pea brain is gonna do.

however, i recently had a great deal of success getting a customer an 
external usb hard drive to move her mp3 and photos off the network at a 
35 employee company and increased network capacity twofold :-)

that's the best way i know to move and store large chunks of data 
without getting into expensive stuff.

Regards,

Jim

Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
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Connecting You to the World since 1997

Calvin Powers wrote:
> Arrgh! I wonder if someone can help educate me on the arcane intricacies 
> of Windows file systems.
>
> I have a plain ol' off the shelf 250Gb hard drive that I bought at Best 
> Buy a few years ago which I use to store my iTunes library. Yesterday I 
> was ripping CDs into my iTunes when I started getting disk space low 
> warnings.
>
> So according to iTunes and the folder size pop ups that come up in 
> windows when I hover my mouse over the top level folder, I'm only using 
> about 160Gb. Yet if I pull up the properties window on the hard drive 
> icon, it shows less than 1 Gb of free space left. 
>
> I checked the recycle bin allocation and says that it will only use 10% 
> of the disk for the recycle bin. So add another 25 Gb to the 160 and I'm 
> still only at 185Gb. Where did the other 65Gb go? Is this due to the 
> "cluster size" issue? The disk is formatted as NTFS and I thought only 
> FAT drives had problems with losign space due to cluster size.
>
> Is there anything else I can do to try to salvage space on the dirve? 
> Would defragging help at all? Because the bulk of the files on that 
> drive are MP3 files, I wouldn't expect to save much space by enabling 
> compression.
>
> Given that my iTunes library is going to grow indefinitely, what would 
> y'all recommend to me for ever increasing storage space needs? I've 
> heard there are network attachable storage devices that can sit on your 
> windows network and serve up large amounts of disk storage. Are these 
> worth the money? Any specific recommendations?
>
>
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