Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!)

From	David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!)
Date	2024-02-08 04:00 +0100
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On 1/22/24 19:55, gene heskett wrote:
 > 2T ssd's:
 >
 > 
<https://www.amazon.com/External-Portable-Drive2TB-Desktop-Chromebook/dp/B0CPDGY8RC/ref=sr_1_62?crid=1JJ4ZBDF36VT8&keywords=usb-c%2B2T%2Bssd&qid=1705982036&sprefix=usb-c%2B2t%2Bssd%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-62&th=1>


It appears Amazon took down the above web page.  Using Amazon search, I see:

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-External-USB3-1-Desktop-Chromebook/dp/B0CSNGML52/


On 2/7/24 12:30, gene heskett wrote:
 > Well the 2T memory everybody was curious about 3 weeks ago got here 
early.
 >
 >  From dmesg after plugging one in:
 > [629240.916163] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 39 using 
xhci_hcd
 > [629241.066221] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=048d,
 > idProduct=1234, bcdDevice= 2.00
 > [629241.066234] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
 > SerialNumber=3
 > [629241.066239] usb 1-2: Product: Disk 3.0
 > [629241.066242] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: USB
 > [629241.066246] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 2697241127107725123
 > [629241.069485] usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
 > [629241.074187] scsi host37: usb-storage 1-2:1.0
 > [629242.100738] scsi 37:0:0:0: Direct-Access              SSD 3.0   2.00
 > PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 > [629242.100959] sd 37:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg13 type 0
 > [629242.101190] sd 37:0:0:0: [sdm] 4096000000 512-byte logical blocks:
 > (2.10 TB/1.91 TiB)
 > [629242.101289] sd 37:0:0:0: [sdm] Write Protect is off
 > [629242.101290] sd 37:0:0:0: [sdm] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
 > [629242.101409] sd 37:0:0:0: [sdm] No Caching mode page found
 > [629242.101410] sd 37:0:0:0: [sdm] Assuming drive cache: write through
 > [629242.103927]  sdm: sdm1
 > [629242.104047] sd 37:0:0:0: [sdm] Attached SCSI disk
 > gene@coyote:
 >
 > Looks like a reasonable facsimile of a 2T disk to me.
 >
 > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.


I would be curious to see a smartctl(8) full report:

# smartctl -x /dev/sdm


Have you figured out how to verify it actually holds 2 TB?


David

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Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-08 04:00 +0100
  Re: Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-02-08 07:30 +0100
  Re: Portable External Hard Drive 2TB (was: Unidentified subject!) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-02-08 07:50 +0100

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