I have a Dell PE R520 with 18.1 TB drive (built on RAID 6, disk internal to server).
I setup Microsoft's Deduplication functionality on this drive and began moving large amounts of material onto it.
Now it shows that it has .75 TB free out of the 18.1 TB; but if I pull up the properties of each of the top-level folders on this drive they show 24.47 TB as the uncompressed file size and 4.66 as the actual (deduped) size on disk.
The 24.47 TB makes sense - since it is deduping it is able to squeeze more into less storage.
What doesn't make sense is why there is only .75 TB free if the deduped files are only consuming 4.66 TB.
What am I missing?