Other notes within the windows system. Turn off Windows System Restore, Recycle Bin, Virtual Memory and file indexing. This will give you the most storage. I do this will all non-programme and system partitions/drives.
Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Altoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 5:53 PM Subject: Re: Tech Question - how full can you fill hard drives? > Mark, > > There is a lot of wasted space on hard drives. If you use Windows (I > can't remember if you do or not) Selecting a group of files in Windows > explorer right clicking and selecting "Properties will give you two size > measurements, "Size" and "Size on Disk". The Size on disk measurement > takes the wastage into account - be aware that different formatting > options have different amounts of wastage. If you compress your hard > drive you loose the wastage, but it also makes accessing the data > slower. It also makes it harder to retrieve if there is a failure on > the disk. > > I can go into description of how disk formatting works, but I doubt that > you are that interested. > > The size difference between a 500 gb drive and how much it can hold also > stems from the fact that hard drive manufacturer defines a gb as > 1,000,000,000 bytes and the operating system defines a gb as > 1,073,741,824 bytes. > > -- > Leon > > http://www.bluering.org.au > http://www.bluering.org.au/leon > > > Mark Cassino wrote: >> I've got a real 'get it done' mindset on moving my digital photos from >> DVD's and CD's to external hard drives. Unfortunately, my math seems to >> have been off on how many of these external drives I'd need... >> >> Aside from the real vs nominal storage capacity issue, which I should >> have anticipated, (the 500 gb drives I bought actually store 460 gb of >> data)- as I close in on packing my first drive full I realize that hard >> drives need some empty space to function properly. >> >> So the 500 gig drive only hold 460, and the 460 gig drive can't really >> be filled up to 460 gigs... >> >> How much empty space does a hard drive need to work properly? I've seen >> articles on the web that say a drive should not be filled beyond 80% of >> capacity - wow, that would be a huge bite out of the storage space. >> >> I'm loading up the drives with what I consider to be static data. If I >> re-work an image my scheme for organizing files calls for rolling the >> new version forward onto a new drive (or at least a new directory.) So >> once a drive is loaded with images, it should not change. I'm thinking >> (hoping) the 80% rule may pertain more to drives used dynamically, new >> data coming and going, and not for just archiving data. >> >> I knew that you should not load drives to 100%, but I was planning on >> leaving only about 10 gigs free on each drive. Is that reasonable? If >> not - how much free space is needed? >> >> Thanks - >> >> MCC > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
