Tim: >> 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. George N. White III: > 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. Interesting. I hadn't considered that reason (although the drive does look identical to any other hard drive in size and shape). It's quite a quiet drive, too, so it doesn't sound like two mechanisms. Not that's a very scientific assessment. I just guessed they were doing something oddball. Like a workaround for a maximum partition size their software could handle. One day, if I get the chance again, I'll see if I can jot down the drive model info. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 31 23:36:51 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
