I'm interested in buying some 6.4 TB Fusion IO SX300 cards. They will be formatted as NTFS 64 Kb cluster size with Windows Server. My question is what will the actual usable space be once the drives are formatted with a filesystem on top? Does anyone have some of these and have formatted them for Windows Server?
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I don't see how those SSD are supposed to be different from any other SSD/HDD/RAID/iSCSI/whtever solution as far as NTFS is concerned. Can you clarify? – Konrad Gajewski May 15 '15 at 11:11
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1I'd call Fusion-io. – ewwhite May 15 '15 at 12:57
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I did, they said 5.81 TB. – Mark Allison May 15 '15 at 14:21
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This'll depend on the cluster size you're using and the average size of the files you're putting on it (more files = more overhead, generally).
From my experience with comparable disk sizes, the overhead is negligble.
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I edited my question to include the cluster size. Once the drive is formatted I want to know what Windows will report as usable space in GB. – Mark Allison May 15 '15 at 10:05