Sony announces new 24mp full frame sensor -- can anyone say A900? | Alphatracks http://alphatracks.com/archives/100#comment-6875 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:02:31 +0000 http://alphatracks.com/archives/100#comment-6875 Speaking of hard drives (External 500 GB = ~$120US as of 2008-01, External 1 TB = ~$250US), when formatted as NTFS and COMPRESSED, how much space savings are people noticing storing image files? For me, 211% slack (wasted space) is not unheard of on FAT32 drives. I almost want to get my ol' Stacker compression software out of my storage bin and reinstall it! Here's a 500 GB FAT 32 report as of today: 93,599 files, 1,352 folders 422 GB (453,433,904,514 bytes) file size 432 GB (455,195,197,440 bytes) occupied on disk 465 GB (499,983,089,664 bytes) total capacity (hence the 500 GB moniker) ... that claims only 2% loss (after 7.5% loss due to size calculations by conservative digital/binary 2-to-the-power-of-10 versus calculations via over-generous decimal 10-to-the-power-of-2!). Uh-huh. Click! Love and hugs, Peter Blaise Minolta Rokkor Alpha DiMage Photographer http://www.peterblaisephotography.com/ PS - May I suggest upgrading the http://www.alphatracks.com/ site header nomenclature to say: Agfa Konica Minolta Sony Dynax Alpha Maxxum DSLR (Agfa sold the Minolta RD-175 as their own Action Cam) - that should cover everything I know of that was released as a Minolta Alpha-Mount Camera AMC DSLR! Speaking of hard drives (External 500 GB = ~$120US as of 2008-01, External 1 TB = ~$250US), when formatted as NTFS and COMPRESSED, how much space savings are people noticing storing image files?

For me, 211% slack (wasted space) is not unheard of on FAT32 drives. I almost want to get my ol’ Stacker compression software out of my storage bin and reinstall it! Here’s a 500 GB FAT 32 report as of today:

93,599 files, 1,352 folders
422 GB (453,433,904,514 bytes) file size
432 GB (455,195,197,440 bytes) occupied on disk
465 GB (499,983,089,664 bytes) total capacity (hence the 500 GB moniker)

… that claims only 2% loss (after 7.5% loss due to size calculations by conservative digital/binary 2-to-the-power-of-10 versus calculations via over-generous decimal 10-to-the-power-of-2!). Uh-huh.

Click!
Love and hugs,
Peter Blaise
Minolta Rokkor Alpha DiMage Photographer
http://www.peterblaisephotography.com/

PS - May I suggest upgrading the http://www.alphatracks.com/ site header nomenclature to say:

Agfa Konica Minolta Sony Dynax Alpha Maxxum DSLR

(Agfa sold the Minolta RD-175 as their own Action Cam) - that should cover everything I know of that was released as a Minolta Alpha-Mount Camera AMC DSLR!

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