It's an add-on comment after my initial one. I've upgraded the rating.
Preamble:
The drive comes pre-formatted with MS's exFAT file system with Allocation Unit Size (ASU) of 4096 Kb. If you have a lot of smaller sized files to store, this will result in a significant loss of storage capacity, i.e., the difference between True Size and Size on Disk will be significant proportional to how many smaller sized files you have. I realized this after backing up my PC as there was no info on the manual. Once I realized it, I reformatted the drive with NTFS ASU 4096 Bytes matching the SSD of my PC. Things seem much better now. If you have larger sized files, such as high-resolution images, music, movies etc, then you perhaps do not need to reformat but if you have smaller sized files, you will need to reformat to a lower ASU. The ASU is the smallest capacity that the file system will use, even if your file is of much lower size.
The built, feel, form factor and I/O speed is very satisfactory. Its been only 5 days since I got it. If things go downhill, I will reduce the rating and add more comments. So far so good.
Earlier comment:
Something is off with the per-formatted file system. I am on a Windows 10 machine. I made a back up of my PC. The Size on disk/true size ratio is too high effectively giving me less than 1.5 Tb on a 2Tb hard drive. The product build looks great but this is a huge negative and there is no information provided with the product to reformat or do something otherwise. Any help?
| Hard Drive | 2 TB Solid State Drive |
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