WD 12TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive empty space

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rinaldo00

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I just bought a WD 12TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive. I had never bought a HD that large. It was already formatted and when I looked at the properties of the drive I saw that 453 MB was already used.

It had two standard system directories

$RECYCLE.BIN
System Volume Information

Is that HD space reserved for the Recycle Bin?

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yeah, it's just overhead for the NTFS filesystem and Recycle Bin most likely. That said, I usually delete whatever filesystem exists and re-create my own just to start fresh whenever I buy a new drive. Don't forget to choose "quick format" unless you want to wait 48+ hours.
 
Azrak said:
yeah, it's just overhead for the NTFS filesystem and Recycle Bin most likely. That said, I usually delete whatever filesystem exists and re-create my own just to start fresh whenever I buy a new drive. Don't forget to choose "quick format" unless you want to wait 48+ hours.
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Good idea!
 
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