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

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