On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 23:09, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:28 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > This is not so surprising when you realize that most NAS boxes run > > Linux. > > Though it can be surprising to find out how they've used a drive. Such > as a 4TB WD MyCloud that provides that 4TB using two 2TB partitions on > the *same* drive, using RAID to make them one 4TB. I dunno why they'd > do it that way. > If you control the hardware you get more options. I've opened up dozens of older drives to destroy platters, and they all had one actuator shared by all the heads. Maybe the WD drives have two actuators, so are effectively 2x2TB drives on one case. This has been investigated in the past: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hdd-harddrive,8279.html and wasn't cost effective, but now we have: https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-technology-a-new-performance-breakthrough/ -- George N. White III
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