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["Cristobal Palmer" <cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com>]

The hover is an estimate. What drive letter is this? D: ? This is an
internal HD, yes?

Mr. Ray's suggestion of an external enclosure has two other advantages
he didn't mention: portability and less power used (assuming the
enclosure you get has a power switch), so less heat in your box.

Are you ripping these tracks directly form CD? If so, consider using a
lossless format such as FLAC for archiving. Obviously this doesn't fix
your space problem, but be aware that you're setting yourself up for
more trouble in the future if you stick yourself with Apple's lossy
codec for the convenience of putting it on your iPod.

-CMP

On 7/16/06, Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com> 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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