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by blackthedot
13 Nov 2014, 15:03
Forum: Help
Topic: mirrored hdd uses less space than the original one. also there are less files on the mirrored one.
Replies: 2
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Re: mirrored hdd uses less space than the original one. also there are less files on the mirrored one.

There might be different, mutually non-exclusive reasons:
1)
File-size and disk-usage are two different things.
If the two disks are not formatted exactly identical (e.g block-size),
the disk-usage can be different, even if all files are identical.
2)
The difference in number of files might be ...
by blackthedot
09 Nov 2014, 12:59
Forum: Help
Topic: mirrored hdd uses less space than the original one. also there are less files on the mirrored one.
Replies: 2
Views: 841

mirrored hdd uses less space than the original one. also there are less files on the mirrored one.

I have an archive of many many files on my drive N: which I, from time to time, mirror to my drive O: with freefile sync. works pretty well, but recently i noticed some inconsistencies. at first I noticed that O: is using less space than N:, even though both hdd's are the same size (even the same ...