Size/Size on Disk

[BlaineSch]

Can somebody explain the difference?

[WingedPanther]

Because limits of addressing physical locations on the hard drive, when a file is written to disk, it will occupy blocks of a certain size (such as 2Kb, 12Kb, etc). So, even though the file may be only 200 Bytes, it still occupies space for 2KB (it can't share a block with another file).

[BlaineSch]

Thank you. That makes perfect sense.

[jwxie518]

Just a question, is there anyone working on sharing the block (the extra 2kb)?

[TcM]

Because limits of addressing physical locations on the hard drive, when a file is written to disk, it will occupy blocks of a certain size (such as 2Kb, 12Kb, etc). So, even though the file may be only 200 Bytes, it still occupies space for 2KB (it can't share a block with another file).

Seems like this answers Lost Space? too?

[jwxie518]

I guess so since if all these files takes an extra 2k 2kb, i guess it does add up to some 700 extra mb.

[BlaineSch]

A minor flaw I suppose - until the next genius figures out a new best way of doing it lol

[TcM]

I don't think that will be possible, because of the table.. I mean if a file is split into let's say 3 blocks.. and in one block of that it will have a part of this file and another part of another file.. when it will read the data it will pickup the other part too...

What would be possible is to reduce the size of these blocks to 1bit no space wasted.. but I don't know the downside of that.. probably it would be too slow reason bit by bit rather than 12kb by 12kb?? Mine is 4kb.. that means less wasted space.

[BlaineSch]

maybe if somebody found another way to store stuff tho.. it might come in handy lol - I suppose your right tho less space per block would slow it down.. but if your pc is fast enough... lol

[TcM]

You see.. having a fast pc does not mean anything when it comes to hdd.. because there is always a bottleneck when it comes to CPU vs HDD :/

Hmm, my external HDD is 32kb :|