So, obviously i am not 100% sure about the terminology here, or even exactly how it works which is why i would be really grateful if someone who knows their stuff can tell me about it.

But i do know that all drives i’ve used throughtout the years will “reserve” some portion of the disk space that can’t be used for storage, meaning even after you reformat a 2 tb drive it might show something like 1.87/1.87 available space.

It was always my understanding that this unusable space just contains files that are required to actually use the drive and to be able to read/write on it.

However, recently i bought a WD Elements 8tb drive and after formatting it just now it shows 7,27/7,27 available space. That just seems absolutely crazy to me. That’s 730 gb its using, which is almost as much as my entire ssd C: drive i use for games/software/os.

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