[paskel]

so i google and see recs to leave 10-15% free on a hard drive.
but they state that is due to leaving room to defrag.

i use a 6 tb external to store music & video files.
i do not play files from the drive and dont run games or programs etc
it is solely for storage - just copy files to the drive and leave them there.

so if i just want to fill a dive w files cant i fill it near capacity?
a 6 tb drive hows up as 5.45 anyway so that would mean saving 500GB free?

that seems like a wast of space