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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

Also, don¹t forget that the 250GB size is based on a calculation of 1,000
bytes in a kilobyte, while Windows calculates the available size based on
1,024 bytes in a kilobyte. Add formatting overhead, and that is probably
another 20GB.

David

On 07/16/06 10:25 AM, "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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