Friday, 3 June 2011

3TB Seagate Go Flex Drive and StorageCraft Shadow Protect

WOOOOOOOO, i got a 3TB go flex the other day, MOAR STORAGE MOAR LEECHING.

Anyways i also got some 2tb internal disks to replace my 1.5tb drives that were 3 years old,  i backed up the 1.5 TB drive using ShadowProtect, i then installed the new disks in RAID 1 and proceeded to restore my backup....WTF i had a bazillion 4.9gb files on my drive.  Now you're probably thinking "What a DICK it is formatted as FAT32"....WRONG!!! its formatted as NTFS which confused me to being with.  After a quick search on google.com i came across this forum post which explains why i have heaps of 4.9gb files and not 1 500Gb file.

Long story short LBD formatted as NTFS with a block size of 4096 means that StorageCraft will need an extra tick box or else it will create multiple 4.9gb files.

-Fr33ze

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