NTFS and ext4 have a 2^32 limit according to this table. The Reddit poster mentioned in the article [0] has 2 TB worth of space. I’m not sure if that’s decimal

NTFS and ext4 have a 2^32 limit according to this table. The Reddit poster mentioned in the article [0] has 2 TB worth of space. I’m not sure if that’s decimal or binary TB, but if we assume binary, you get an average of 512 bytes per file, which is pretty reasonable (and on a real drive, you might be limited by sector size). But even if you had a 20 TB hard drive, and you wanted a lot of files smaller than 5120 bytes, you can just create multiple partitions. Maybe a little inconvenient, but you can still use your drive to the fullest. Not so much with Google’s 5 million limit (for a 2 TB Google Drive, the minimum average file size is around 430 KB [2]) [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/123fjx8/google_has_applied_a_5_million_items_limit_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/123fjx8/google_has_... [1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282%2F2%5E32%29+TiB+in+bytes https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282%2F2%5E32%29+TiB+in... [2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282%2F5000000%29+TiB+in+bytes https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282%2F5000000%29+TiB+i...