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Would You Trust This? (piefed-media.feddit.online)

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?

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[-] Unattributed@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago

Meant to comment on this earlier... I'm implementing an LVM cache -- which is filesystem / device level caching. Having a failure with something at this level could mean corrupting a 42TB storage device. This would be a far cry from losing an application level set of cache files...

That's why I am being a lot more cautious about this drive. A failure here could be non-recoverable.

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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