It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Acrolith on 2025-06-09 15:38:09.

I just bought a 24TB HDD and got a series of nasty shocks when I realized that

a) NTFS partitions above 16 TB have to use 8kb cluster sizes, and

b) cluster sizes above 4k cannot use NTFS compression

I checked my data (currently residing on a compressed 16 TB HDD) and this is kind of a big deal, the compression gives me around 20% extra storage. (a lot of it is e.g. games with poorly compressed assets)

Is there a good way around this? I'd rather not split the HDD up into multiple partitions just for this, but the fact that my files take up so much more space on the new HDD is annoying and means the extra space is giving me less leeway than I had hoped.