Oct 12, 2011 · A zettabyte are 10 21 bytes = 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 Byte 2 70 bytes are called Zebibyte. To quote from Wikipedia: There has been considerable confusion about the meanings of SI (or metric) prefixes used with the unit byte, especially concerning prefixes such as kilo (k or K) and mega (M) as shown in the chart Prefixes for bit and byte. Since computer memory is designed with binary ...

Apr 5, 2011 · The name originally stood for "Zettabyte File System". The original name selectors happened to like the name, and a ZFS file system has the ability to store 2 58 zettabytes, where each ZB is 2 70 bytes.

Mar 31, 2017 · I was running through a partioning problem recently and I couldn't find out which utility was using MB or MiB, and why they couldn't be consistent in all three utilities. For example, in fdisk, wh...

Apr 27, 2012 · I can reformat a brand new 2TB WD Passport drive to exFAT, with choice of many "Allocation Unit Size": 128kb 256kb 512kb 1024kb 4096kb 16384kb 32768kb which one is best if this drive is mainly use...

MBR is the standard partitioning scheme that's been used on hard disks since the PC first came out. It supports 4 primary partitions per hard drive, and a maximum partition size of 2TB. GPT disks are new, and are readable only by Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Vista (all versions), and Windows XP x64 Edition. The GPT disk itself can support a volume up to 2 64 blocks in length. (For 512-byte ...

Sep 19, 2016 · VeraCrypt is only incidental for this question, which is really about the differences between file-system formats. In a nutshell, the main usage points that one can use when deciding on the format are: FAT32: Best performance on small storage volumes and almost universally supported, but the most limited. Maximum volume size is 2 TB, maximum file size is 4 GB (or 2 GB). ExFAT: Best performance ...

Can anyone tell me what the main differences between i.e. MBR vs GPT or any other partition scheme are? Why would one choose one over the other? I am not an expert but from new release of Mac OS X...

Apr 18, 2021 · I think that for an encrypted system disk, you need the Veracrypt boot loader to unlock the system encryption on that drive. You may try to boot from that drive and remove the encryption, although this could take some time depending on the drive size. If this doesn't work for you, then saving the data and reformatting the disk is the only solution.

Oct 7, 2021 · But wouldn't that make size on disk larger than size? This situation seems to be the opposite of what one would expect based on the information in your answer, which I understand really is a reason why size and size on disk would differ.

Jul 6, 2015 · From all the hard drives I have bought, they never seem to be as large as the advertised size; from 320 GB down to 290 GB, from 500 GB down to 450 GB, etc. Is there a technical reason for this?