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Did you check inside the box? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

And it gets more complicated when we get to the metadata and filesystem structure. So, you technically never get to store 931GB, I wonder what the (average) ratio of metadata to data is? 3:1?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Depends on the file system. If you are using FAT-8; it is 256:1 if you are on ZFS it is as low as 1:4.

    It also depends on composition of the data stored. If it is Linux ISOs; it is 4GB:64KB. If it is old C source code; it is 512B:4KB on ext4

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