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  1. As part of a new build/upgrade I am doing on one of my OG's I have recently bought a 6tb HDD. This is great for having lots of space for games, emulators etc etc etc.... However due to the cluster sizes need on these large drives (the bigger the drive, the bigger cluster size needed) you can end up with a LOT of wasted space! The drive was formatted using FatXplorer and the auto suggested cluster size for the 6tb drive. I foramatted with F&G partitions (old habits die hard lol) and they both had approx 2.7TB of space on each, lovely I have F with the entire NTSC set along with all PAL/Jap exclusives all as CCI minus the incompatible few, they are extracted folders instead. Also have a folder for translated games and another for modded games. These are all xiso apart few a few that would not load as xiso. This is all good and I do not have much wasted space on this partition due to ISO/CCi being larger files. The issue comes with my G partition. I am using this for Emulators and Apps. So far I have a couple of Coinops sets plus a Ninja set on there along with a huge PS1 set. Below are the figures that windows properties displays for file size and actual size taken on disk.... Filesize first followed by size on disk. Coinops 6 Adult - 1.79gb - 3.10gb - diff 1.31gb Coinops 8 Adult - 4.25gb - 5.72gb - diff 1.47gb PCSX-Xtras 1450 gamepack - 392gb - 394gb - diff 2gb Emustation - 358gb - 411gb - diff 53gb!!! DosBOX Ultimate v9 - 94.2gb - 114gb - diff 19.8gb Ninja - 250gb - 269gb - diff 19gb Total wasted space = 96.58gb!!!!! Before anyone says it, I know that there's a lot of duplicate roms etc between those sets.. As I had the space on my HDD I thought I'd add them all and see which ones I want to keep after testing So for obvious reasons the Playstation set does not waste that much space, the PS1 isos are bigger than the cluster size. But on the other sets where there are LOTS of tiny files there is much more wasted space. The recommended cluster sizes as i understand it are as follow... EDIT - These are PARTITION sizes. 1-2TB - 128kb 2-4TB - 256kb 4-8TB - 512kb 8-16TB - 1024kb This means the bigger the HDD the more wasted space will occur when installing emulators/games with lots of smaller files. My 6tb uses 512kb. SO every file that is less than 512kb in size will always take 512kb on the disk. EDIT - Although my drive is 6tb my F&G are 2.7tb each so are using 256kb clusters. Now I understand why this happens and I know there is nothing that can be done about it. I just thought I would post this as it was interesting to me how much space was actually being wasted, its a shame we cant format different partitions with differing cluster sizes (or can we???) as that would help keep space wasted down to minimum. EDIT - Added the latest C64 EmuXtras set v3.0 - Filesize 32.3gb - Size on disk - 44.9gb - diff 12.6gb
  2. I have a hard modded console with a 1TB HDD that I would like to swap into a softmodded console that has a 500gb and vice versa. I know that something has to be done with the HDD keys but I dont know the exact details and don't want to mess anything up. Both systems have config magic currently installed. The reason I want to do a simple swap is because I have recently backed up all my games to the 1TB and really don't want to have to go through the hassle of cloning with chimp and then backing them all up again, so if someone is able to give me a quick step by step on what I need to do with both console it would be really appreciated?

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