HowCurio guidesModel file allocation in whole blocks
This is a simple block model for ordinary nonresident, uncompressed files. It is not a measurement of your drive and excludes filesystem metadata, small resident files, sparse files, compression and cloud placeholders.
Observed original-file trial
| File bytes | Allocated bytes |
|---|
| 4,096 | 4,096 |
| 4,097 | 8,192 |
| 5,000 | 8,192 |
| 9,000 | 12,288 |
These rows were read through the Windows FILE_STANDARD_INFO API for newly created local files. They are observations of one volume, not promised values for every drive.
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