Size on Disk Increased Drastically When Moving Drives

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TacticalAssaultSquirrel

I got a new 1TB SSD (952GB usable) to replace an old 1TB HDD (931GB usable) for storing things, and moved all the files over. Both are formatted as NTFS with 4k allocation sizes.I don't remember the exact details of what I had before the transfer, but one of my folders with many working files had something like 225GB for size on disk. After the transfer, I'm now at just over 300GB for the exact same folder. Nothing else was added, deleted, etc for that folder, it's the same exact thing as before. Whereas I thought I would be gaining about 20GB of extra usable space going to the SSD (952GB vs 9

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