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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SurpriseGmg on 2025-02-20 01:03:34.

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I've looked everywhere, and I've failed to find a working answer to this one. For context, these are two Veracrypt containers on two separate drives, and while the file contents are identical down to the byte, there's a discrepancy here of 4,194,304 bytes. Could this have something to do with the containers themselves? I'm very sure that both were created with the exact same settings, so I can't tell what the problem is.

I guess what I'm really asking is: Should I be concerned about this small difference in bytes? I'm not sure which drive is more reliable here since the files seem to be fine on both, I just want to know why there isn't a match on two drives that are basically identical (down to the same model and settings).

Edit: The mismatch was apparently due to one of the recycle bins incorrectly holding onto deleted data, resetting both of them seemed to do the trick.

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