Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2013-07-06

Re: Aren't 2TB+ disk sizes supposed to be standardized?

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
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