I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements - 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick Format - NTFS) before using it and, and then checked out its Properties.
I noticed that it already has 118 MiB of its disk space already used, despite being newly formatted and no files transferred to it.
Questions:
Is the disk space occupied by the disk overhead, metadata, etc. correlated to the total disk space capacity of an NTFS-formatted hard drive?
If yes, how is it computed? (How much disk space will be 'used' by default on a brand new, newly formatted hard drive, given its disk space capacity and if it is formatted to use NTFS?)
Screenshot of the 1 TB drive's Properties after being formatted:
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