New Hard drive Used Space Discrepancy

[Love Me Tender]

Hello,

Anyone know why the following is happening,
I got a SSD for my pc a few months back and noticed now that the space used on the SSD vs my backup drive is different with the exact same files on them both.

1. SSD is a data drive on my pc after formatting is 953GB and has 725GB of data on it. However it shows 760GB. Checked hidden files etc... and cannot find where the additional 35GB could be...

2. Normal SATA is a backup drive has the exact same files on it 725GB and shows the correct amount of free space used...

Any idea why this could be?

 

[B-1]

What does the partitions look like on each of the drives?

 

[Love Me Tender]

What does the partitions look like on each of the drives?

Full single partitions with no boot patriations or unformatted sections or anything else for both of them...

 

[ctriaan]

Hello,

Anyone know why the following is happening,
I got a SSD for my pc a few months back and noticed now that the space used on the SSD vs my backup drive is different with the exact same files on them both.

1. SSD is a data drive on my pc after formatting is 953GB and has 725GB of data on it. However it shows 760GB. Checked hidden files etc... and cannot find where the additional 35GB could be...

2. Normal SATA is a backup drive has the exact same files on it 725GB and shows the correct amount of free space used...

Any idea why this could be?

Recycle bin?

 

[Love Me Tender]

Recycle bin?

empty

 

[My_King]

Treesize scan?

 

[Love Me Tender]

Treesize scan?

Never used treesize scan before, will have a look at it, thanks

 

[animal531]

The missing 35Gb is a common thing:

Why is my HDD missing about 35 GB?

I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go? This is what my HDD looks like in the

superuser.com

If it's not that then there's another common issue where Windows is allocating data on it, which you can pick up with Treesize as said.

 

[Love Me Tender]

The missing 35Gb is a common thing:

Why is my HDD missing about 35 GB?

I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go? This is what my HDD looks like in the

superuser.com

If it's not that then there's another common issue where Windows is allocating data on it, which you can pick up with Treesize as said.

Thanks will have a look at both, appreciated

 

[Browser]

Look into, and compare, the sector and cluster sizes of the two disks/partitions in question.

 

[Love Me Tender]

Look into, and compare, the sector and cluster sizes of the two disks/partitions in question.

Thanks, I read somewhere they differ for SSD and normal HDD. Will look into it some more

 

[sensus communis]

there is things like the paging file on C drive

 

[Love Me Tender]

there is things like the paging file on C drive

Thanks, this is a data drive only. I tried looking for a pagefile could not find it. Will try and get one of those disk analysing software to check