Re: Aren't 2TB+ disk sizes supposed to be standardized?
From: Kai Stian Olstad <hidden>
Date: 2013-07-06 07:50:25
From: Kai Stian Olstad <hidden>
Date: 2013-07-06 07:50:25
On 07/05/2013 07:19 AM, Tudor Holton wrote:
$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc Model Family: Seagate Barracuda (SATA 3Gb/s, 4K Sectors) Device Model: ST2000DM001-1CH164 Firmware Version: CC43 User Capacity: 2,000,397,852,160 bytes [2.00 TB]
According to the product manual this disk has guaranteed sectors count of 3,907,029,168 (one sector counts as 512 bytes). 3,907,029,168 * 512 = 2,000,398,934,016 bytes As Mikael wrote is probably your controller. -- Kai Stian Olstad