I bought a 2242 size m.2 SSD to use as lvm cache for an external DAS I’m working with. The drive is supposed to be 64GB, but when I pulled it up in gparted I found the below. (I created the partition to see what would happen.) If my calculations are correct, this drive is acting like a 1TB drive instead of a 64GB drive.

If my calculator is correct, a 64GB drive should be 59.6 GiB instead of 931.5 GiB.

So, would you trust this drive?

  • MurrayL@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    As others said, this looks like a fake drive sold as a scam. Chances are high the drive controller has been modified to report incorrect values. Any data written to that space beyond its actual capacity will either overwrite existing data or go straight to dev/null