{"id":380,"date":"2017-01-05T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-01-05T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:57:56","slug":"why-is-there-a-big-difference-between-file-size-and-the-size-on-disk-its-takeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Why is There a Big Difference Between File Size and The Size on Disk its takeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The difference usually happens because you have a lot of small files, Consider this:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>50,000 files<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>32 KB cluster size (allocation units), which is the max for FAT32<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>for each file averaged 2 KB, you\u2019d get about 100 MB total \u2013 but you\u2019re also wasting 15x that (30 KB per file) on average due to the allocation unit size.<\/p>\n<p>Real file size will be 100mb<\/p>\n<p>Actual size on disk will be 50000*32000 wasting 15x that (30 KB per file) on average due to the allocation unit size<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The difference usually happens because you have a lot of small files, Consider this: 50,000 files 32 KB cluster size (allocation units), which is the max for FAT32 for each file averaged 2 KB, you\u2019d get about 100 MB total \u2013 but you\u2019re also wasting 15x that (30 KB per file) on average due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-windows","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}