Hello,
sorry if this is the incorrect forum, but I have some sort of oddity with my harddrives of 2TB and our software.
I have developed a recorder for recording images from Cameras and dump them on the harddrives. We currently have 4 x 2TB harddrives in the system and the idea is to start on disk 1 till its full and then move to the next one.
I have calculated that each image takes up 64kb, and enforced this by formatting the drive with an allocation unit of 64k so each image fits exactly one cluster.
I have done the following calculation:
disksize / 1024 / 64 / 1.05 to calculate the maximum amount of images that will fit on the drive with a margin of 5% space. This would result in +- 29 million images for a 2TB disk.
However the software started halfway the disk on the next disk, so now my first 2TB disk is halfway full, or so windows says.
Anyone any ideas?
sorry if this is the incorrect forum, but I have some sort of oddity with my harddrives of 2TB and our software.
I have developed a recorder for recording images from Cameras and dump them on the harddrives. We currently have 4 x 2TB harddrives in the system and the idea is to start on disk 1 till its full and then move to the next one.
I have calculated that each image takes up 64kb, and enforced this by formatting the drive with an allocation unit of 64k so each image fits exactly one cluster.
I have done the following calculation:
disksize / 1024 / 64 / 1.05 to calculate the maximum amount of images that will fit on the drive with a margin of 5% space. This would result in +- 29 million images for a 2TB disk.
However the software started halfway the disk on the next disk, so now my first 2TB disk is halfway full, or so windows says.
Anyone any ideas?
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