WD 120 gig Caviar reads as 2 Terabyte Drive

[Bradleylicious]

So i used this drive in my GFs machine for about a month, and had a bunch of stuff save on it. i through it in an enclsure, got everyting needed, and then decided to format it and wipe it clean... I go into the management utility in windows, and it says there is 2 sections to the hard drive, 1: being partitioned for 120 gigs, then 1900 gigs, unalocated. So i was like hm...okay, let boot this guy with my mac... SAME THING! i don't follow... Anyone ever see anything like this? I have used hundreds of drives and nothing ever like this... Would be sweet tho... To bad it probably means my drive is dying...


Help?

 

[reallyscrued]

...SCREENSHOTS, NOWW!!

Haha, well, my guess would be an f'd up controller card. Even if you get it to work fine, I wouldn't trust it with sensitive data. If it's under warrenty, go replace it for a new one.

 

[xanis]

We need screenshots. NOW.

 

[Bradleylicious]

Well i had to return my buddies external, so I will get that back from him, and take some pics. Yeah this was really weird. I have used over 50 of these drives, never had any problems. But i can't even google this one...

 

[arcenite]

PICS

 

[Jiggz]

I can't wait to see this one! PICS!

 

[Crescent13]

PICS!!!

 

[johnnqq]

you got the supersecret ultra xtpe hard drive!

 

[Overkiller]

now that's some density

 

[Lord Evermore]

Hard drives have been 2 terabytes in size for years now, and solid state. All the noise we hear from drives is just to imitate mechanical drive noise so that they can continue to make money by slowly increasing the drive "size" and selling us "new, different, better" models.

In fact, they don't even weigh as much as they feel like they do, it's faked.


If you have others of the same model, try swapping the controller PCB on the drive and see if it corrects the issue, and if the same thing happens with the board on another drive.

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Hard drives have been 2 terabytes in size for years now, and solid state. All the noise we hear from drives is just to imitate mechanical drive noise so that they can continue to make money by slowly increasing the drive "size" and selling us "new, different, better" models.

In fact, they don't even weigh as much as they feel like they do, it's faked.


If you have others of the same model, try swapping the controller PCB on the drive and see if it corrects the issue, and if the same thing happens with the board on another drive.

I knew there had to be a reason hard drives weren't progressing as quickly as the rest of the industry!

 

[Maluno]

Lots of small advances means people will pay to upgrade continually instead of the premium for a huge advance which will drop much faster...

 

[tyborg]

I wouldn't replace the PCB. it's dangerous unless you have an EXACT duplicate (same manufacture date, same factory location, exact same model number, etc.). Just take pics, and get it RMAed if it's under warranty. if not, what've you got to lose trying to partition it 1.9 TB just to see what happens?

 

[BigToque]

Take a screenshot foryourself (and AT) to show you have the forums first 2TB HD, then format it.

If you lose it, it was never meant to be. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.

 

[Sunbird]

Did you per change buy this from Micheals Computers?