Thread: Massive filesize wasted on NAS Drive
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Old 23-12-2013, 19:57   #4
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Re: Massive filesize wasted on NAS Drive
If the drive is formatted in an old/archaic file system and you didn't bother formatting it properly, it will be using a large cluster size and small files will waste a lot of space.

To get 2TB on FAT32 for example you would need to be using 32KB clusters, which means any file nomatter how small will use at least 32KB of space.
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