Hard drive showing too large of capacity?
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Solved by RedWulf,
1 minute ago, Luke said:It shows 2TB on the label it would have to have been a mistake on Western Digital's part if it was actually a 6TB drive and not a 2TB. I was going to test if it holds the 5.45TB of capacity but i figured i'd ask around before i do an unnecessary amount of writing to the drive.
The drive needed formatting before it could be read and i did the default windows format and it showed up as 5.45TB.
I would just use a disk fill program or copy some drives to see if it holds 5tb. It may have been a return that got mislabeled or just dub luck.
You can try a disk utility like minipart wizard or any other tool to double check then just set it to write overnight
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