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Bookmark or Share- What filesystem should I use for a large amount of disk ... - Super UserThe name originally stood for "Zettabyte File System". The original name selectors happened to like the name, and a ZFS file system has the ability to store 2 58 zettabytes, where each ZB is 2 70 bytes. ZFS is a 128-bit file system, so it can address 1.84 × 10 19 times more data than 64-bit systems such as NTFS. The limitations of ZFS are ...
- windows - Veracrypt - permanently decrypt a working system drive from ...I have an encrypted system disk pulled from a dead PC. I do not have the rescue disk / ISO from when I encrypted the disk. I do have the (working) password The disk is fully functioning (i.e. not
- Why are hard drives never as large as advertised? - Super Userzettabyte ZB vs zebibyte ZiB = 10^21 / 2^70 = 84.7%; yottabyte YB vs yobibyte YiB = 10^24 / 2^80 = 82.7%; Hence why in the current era 1TB = 1000GB drives show up as 93.1% of capacity in Windows = 931GB. This feeling of being conned out of drive space will only get worse as drive capacities increase.
- Is it best to reformat the hard drive to exFAT using 512kb chunk, or ...I can reformat a brand new 2TB WD Passport drive to exFAT, with choice of many "Allocation Unit Size": 128kb 256kb 512kb 1024kb 4096kb 16384kb 32768kb which one is best if this drive is mainly us...
- How can a file's size on disk be 0 bytes when there's data in it?This happens if the file is so small that its contents and the filesystem bookkeeping fit in 1KB. To save disk space, NTFS keeps small files "resident", storing their contents right in the file record, so no cluster has to be allocated for it.
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