Windows 10: 10gb discrepancy between contents of external HDD and same data copied to my PC

I want to transfer the contents of an external HDD to my PC.

I plugged the drive in the PC, created a new folder locally and copied the contents of the HDD into that folder. There are over 150gb of data.

When it finished copying all files across I noticed the size of the folder is about 10Gb less than what's on the external HDD. screenshot here.

Is this discrepancy happening because the HDD is formatted as fat32 whereas I have NTFS in my internal drives? that would be the only explanation I can think of. I'm only asking because the difference seems to be quite big at 10Gb.

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