On 31/7/21 11:50 am, Wols Lists wrote: > 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 > I am amused in a cynical way at disk manufacturers using decimal values ...
Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition). Contains a single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual machines/data stores - I get an insane amount of de-duplication that way for a slight decrease in conveniance! BillK
