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?
Hell no, that kind of behavior is what those aliexpress/wish knockoff drives do to fool the customer base stupid enough to trust the listing.
I would go so far as to say to get a refund and go to an actual store so you're not buying bootlegs.
I agree - I wouldn't trust it either...and, surprisingly, this one came from Amazon, and not some fly-by-night AliExpress store. (I rarely purchase something there without seeing reviews first...
But the other thing about this is that I checked out the website for the product. They are a company that specializes in enterprise and embedded products. I was pretty certain I had heard of them before in the enterprise world, which is why I purchased the drive.
The reason I bought this drive was because it specifies having a NAND cache on it (MLC, but beggars can't be choosers with drives like this), whereas the others I looked at didn't have (or at list didn't have specs which listed having) any form of NAND caching.
@nao@sh.itjust.works - thanks f or the pointer to f3 -- I'll grab it and check the drive before I return it.
Okay - wild... The results of f3probe:
Oops - misstated something before. This is an MLC NAND drive, the cache is supposed to be DDR4 DRAM. I suspect, however, this is a mis-labeled drive...