Free 500GB of space

[tuxsheadache]

Okay, I currently own a 1.5TB external HDD called Henri on the image below. I managed to fill it up (currently 3.8GB of space left), so decided to invest in a 2TB internal HDD (so I could backup all my previous files, put old HDD away in storage, and then use extra 500GB of space).

Over the last few days I have been copying data from one to the other, so first I had to format my new drive using Pamlimpsest Disk Utility manager. On review, I decided to look at all my drives (health checks and the like) when I found apparently on my old drive (the 1.5TB one) it has a remaining 426GB of free unallocated space.

Something smells fishy about this, just a bit.

Here's some info for you:

Screenshot of Pamlimpsest;

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9439/unallocatedspace.th.jpg (http://img521.imageshack.us/i/unallocatedspace.jpg/)

The drive in question, no longer on sale but on Play.com

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/8696606/Maxtor-Basics-STM315005EHD301-RK-1-5TB-USB-3-5-External-Hard-Drive/Product.html

I am currently backing up my external HDD, once it is done I will try partitioning this new space,

[HoboElectus]

What did you fill up a 1.5TB drive with exactly? :confused:

[tuxsheadache]

What did you fill up a 1.5TB drive with exactly? :confused:

Music, videos, pictures, software and the like!

[xpod]

What did you fill up a 1.5TB drive with exactly? :confused:

Virgin Media`s 50Mb Broadband connection probably.:D

[tuxsheadache]

Virgin Media`s 50Mb Broadband connection probably.:D

Touche! 20Mb, 50Mb soon =D

[underquark]

You have an absurd amount of storage space.

[Pasdar]

Any reason ur using ntfs and not ext4?

[tuxsheadache]

Any reason ur using ntfs and not ext4?

I chose NTFS to provide better support for when I boot into windows, as some don't support it

[NoaHall]

I chose NTFS to provide better support for when I boot into windows, as some don't support it

As some don't support what? Windows has no support for ext4, and there are no good third party software for it.

[CharlesA]

Could have just use ext3 instead of ext4, since there is a driver for Windows to read and write to it.

My external backup drives run EXT3, since I don't trust EXT4 just yet.

[tuxsheadache]

As some don't support what? Windows has no support for ext4, and there are no good third party software for it.

I checked this under OS support;

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

NTFS seemed the best option (I don't use MACs, and FAT couldn't support large enough files). I wasn't sure how much support there was for ext3/4 for Windows, so decided to play it safe.

The external HDD came as NTFS from day one.

[scouser73]

I checked this under OS support;

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

NTFS seemed the best option (I don't use MACs, and FAT couldn't support large enough files). I wasn't sure how much support there was for ext3/4 for Windows, so decided to play it safe.

The external HDD came as NTFS from day one.

Same with all my external HDDs are formatted to NTFS except one, but I only run Ubuntu.

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8945/screenshotxt.th.png (http://img522.imageshack.us/i/screenshotxt.png/)

[Simon17]

Music porn, videos porn, pictures porn, software porn and the like porn!

You're only kidding yourself.

[tuxsheadache]

You're only kidding yourself.

and how ;-)

I rebooted PC and the mystery 500GB disappeared, maybe next time xD

[xpod]

Touche! 20Mb, 50Mb soon =D

Same here. ;)
I wont be upgrading to any 50Mb any time soon though, if at all.
Even with my lad`s Desktop & PS3, the girls laptops, netbooks & DS/i`s and of course my own machines 20Mb is more than enough.

Hell, even the 10Mb & 4Mb, when we had them, were more than sufficient.