On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote: > (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR) > > It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk > /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors" and Seagate > is calling it 5Tb - marketing!
Note that it's now official, TB is decimal and TiB is binary, so a 4TB drive being 3.64TiB makes sense. TB is 10e9, while TiB is 2e30. btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad things are likely to happen ... Cheers, Wol