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On 31/7/21 11:50 am, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR) |
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>> It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk |
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>> /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors" and Seagate |
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>> is calling it 5Tb - marketing! |
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> Note that it's now official, TB is decimal and TiB is binary, so a 4TB |
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> drive being 3.64TiB makes sense. TB is 10e9, while TiB is 2e30. |
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> btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad |
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> things are likely to happen ... |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I am amused in a cynical way at disk manufacturers using decimal values ... |
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Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition). Contains a |
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single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online |
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borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual |
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machines/data stores - I get an insane amount of de-duplication that way |
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for a slight decrease in conveniance! |
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BillK |
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