jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
I purchased a Samsung F4 2TB drive about a month ago. Generally, before using a drive, I'll let it burn in a while and also surface scan it a number of times. No problems there, but it seems the drive is reporting its free space incorrectly. The free space is correct after I format the drive. It shows as 2,000,270,127,104 bytes free. However, after a few days, or in some cases only a few hours, it shows about 2.4 GB less. As best I can determine, the problem starts occurring after I delete a file ( from any drive, not just from the Samsung ), or after a reboot. It does the same thing whether or not there are files on the drive. For example, I copied one folder with 7.29 GB to the drive, and yet the drive properties showed 9.74 GB in use after a few days. The weird part is doing a chkdsk shows the correct number of allocation units and bytes free, but XP reports the free space incorrectly. Has anyone else come across this problem? And is there a solution? BTW, I checked for hidden files and such, but there are none.
On another note, is there any way to get XP to report file and disk sizes in the correct base 10 manner instead of the idiotic base 2 convention where 2 TB reports as 1.81 TB? Last I checked, K = 1000, M = 1,000,000, G = 1,000,000,000, and T = 1,000,000,000,000. You should at least have the option to choose between base 2 and base 10.
On another note, is there any way to get XP to report file and disk sizes in the correct base 10 manner instead of the idiotic base 2 convention where 2 TB reports as 1.81 TB? Last I checked, K = 1000, M = 1,000,000, G = 1,000,000,000, and T = 1,000,000,000,000. You should at least have the option to choose between base 2 and base 10.