I recently checked something on my 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT and I'm not sure if it's something to be concerned about and would like to find out before storing even more data on it. Also this only seems to happen when using the drive via a USB3 dock, when plugging it into a SATA dock things appear as I would expect them to.
The drive been working fine so far for months though doesn't get much usage, only storing large rarely used files, its currently has 1.5TB-1.7TB used space.
Though it seems fine so far the following gives me some concern and I want to know if it's normal or something to worry about.
In disk manager I see this...
It shows the drives full size but seems to have a duplicate listed as offline (I only have one 3TB drive). Is that something to worry about? It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in it storing data so can this be resolved?
Also in DISKPART, using DISK LIST I get this...
Here it's showing the 3TB drive (the only GPT drive) as split into 2047GB and 746GB (offline) though in Windows diskmgmt and Explorer it shows it the drive as 2700GB (3TB).
Could someone please explain this to me and why it is or isn't something to worry about.
Is this simply something to do with the USB3 dock doing some juggling to support 3TB drives, could anyone explain why/how etc if that's the case.
Most of the data on the drive has been transferred via the USB3 dock without any corruption or loss so far, is there any risk in continuing to use the Dock?
Thanks a lot.
ed..
The dock in question is a Vantec Nexstar hard drive dock , black , nst-d300s3-bk
http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/415
The drive been working fine so far for months though doesn't get much usage, only storing large rarely used files, its currently has 1.5TB-1.7TB used space.
Though it seems fine so far the following gives me some concern and I want to know if it's normal or something to worry about.
In disk manager I see this...
It shows the drives full size but seems to have a duplicate listed as offline (I only have one 3TB drive). Is that something to worry about? It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in it storing data so can this be resolved?
Also in DISKPART, using DISK LIST I get this...
Here it's showing the 3TB drive (the only GPT drive) as split into 2047GB and 746GB (offline) though in Windows diskmgmt and Explorer it shows it the drive as 2700GB (3TB).
Could someone please explain this to me and why it is or isn't something to worry about.
Is this simply something to do with the USB3 dock doing some juggling to support 3TB drives, could anyone explain why/how etc if that's the case.
Most of the data on the drive has been transferred via the USB3 dock without any corruption or loss so far, is there any risk in continuing to use the Dock?
Thanks a lot.
ed..
The dock in question is a Vantec Nexstar hard drive dock , black , nst-d300s3-bk
http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/415
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