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You are not losing much by formatting HDD in Windows. &nbsp;Windows only took very small portion, just don't include system files and other when you chose it.
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Hi there,<br />
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I am planning on making a a raid 5 setup in win XP using 4 x 400 gb drives, i understand that for the raid 5 config i will lose 1/3 of the overall space available to me because of the redundancy. I know that in win xp when one formats a 200 or 400 gb drive they dont get the full space labelled on the disk due to sector size etc.<br />
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Is there an easy way to work out the loss of a drives space after formatting in win on the assumption that one uses the NTFS fs?<br />
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thanks<br />
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Hi there,

I am planning on making a a raid 5 setup in win XP using 4 x 400 gb drives, i understand that for the raid 5 config i will lose 1/3 of the overall space available to me because of the redundancy. I know that in win xp when one formats a 200 or 400 gb drive they dont get the full space labelled on the disk due to sector size etc.

Is there an easy way to work out the loss of a drives space after formatting in win on the assumption that one uses the NTFS fs?

thanks






You are not losing much by formatting HDD in Windows.  Windows only took very small portion, just don&#39;t include system files and other when you chose it.

How much space does one lose when formatting a HDD in windows

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