Yeah, sorry about that! You did point something out that I noticed myself. Hmm, this new file on pixeldrain is larger, maybe it's an upgrade to the one I have!
Can anyone explain why some of my hard drives present different file sizes for the same files? Usually, they are larger files, and they file sizes only end up being a few hundred bytes difference.
Units used for file sizes
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Re: Units used for file sizes
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My operating system displays two file sizes. "Size" and "Size on disk".pillowbaker wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:09 am Can anyone explain why some of my hard drives present different file sizes for the same files? Usually, they are larger files, and they file sizes only end up being a few hundred bytes difference.
Size is the actual file size.
However, disks do not allocate individual bytes for files, but instead allocate larger chunks known as clusters that will vary depending on how the disk was formatted. Larger disks will usually have larger cluster sizes.
Re: Units used for file sizes
And pixeldrain actually has very good records about file metadata, such as:Night457 wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:41 am Don't be confused because pixeldrain math calls it 1.53Gb. It is still the same file.
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