NTFS help

Just to see if I got this right NTFS can support
18,446,744,073,709,550,592 Clusters??

And the bigest Hard Drive it can Support is 256 TB??

Didn't you read the earlier posts?

18,446,744,073,709,550,592 Bytes - 16EiB - 1Kb

2^64-1 clusters

These values where shamelessly copied from Russel's link ;)

256 terabytes minus one cluster (64 kilobyte.)

You need to subtract 64 kilobytes. So you are close, but no cigar!
 
If I want to know the bigest Hard Drive that FAT 32 can support
32 X 268,435,455 = 2. TB

But if I want to know the Bigest Hard Drive NTFS can support you say take Cluster size and Subtracked it from Hard Drive 256 TB

Why would I not do the Math like I do with FAT 32 64 k X Number of Clusters???????
 
2 to the 64th clusters (clusters being 64K each) is 256 terabytes. Then, according to the wiki link I posted, you must subtract one cluster from that.

Did you read the Wiki page?

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2^64 X 64K - 64K

Two to the sixty fourth times sixty four thousand minus 64 thousand.

2^64 is the number of clusters.

64K is the size of each cluster.
 
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