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Product images are for illustrative purposes only therefore the delivered product may vary from the one shown above. MartinLiddle Good thought - I will post more details from (paper) disk label when I open box up again after the weekend as I am away until next week. I don't have anything very precise to measure them with unfortunately, especially under load and normal working.
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I was/am looking for a bit more understanding or, if it happened to not be duff, suggestions as to what newbie idiocy I might have perpetrated in my config which could be undone to make things right.Introducing the reliable and high-performance Seagate ST2000VM003 desktop hard drive. With an impressive 2TB capacity, it offers ample space to store your valuable data, media files, and documents. Experience fast data access and transfer speeds with its 5900RPM rotation per minute that ensures swift and efficient operations. The SATA interface guarantees seamless connectivity and compatibility with a wide range of devices. Its compact 3.5-inch design allows for easy installation in any desktop setup. Trust in its reliability, durability, and superior performance to meet all your storage needs. Capacity: The 'gfdisk -lu /dev/sda' showed that the reformat had tweaked the partition start points a little - post (maint menu) reformat it is now:
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Corroboration that the disk is probably duff is interesting, but ' a bloke on a forum says it is broken' won't help with the supplier.
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The Seagate® Pipeline® drives are designed to meet a growing need in the market today. With its optimization for low-power consumption, smooth video streaming, and stunningly quiet operation, these drives are built for reliable 24x7 operation. Disk problems continued, however and I ran fix-disk again but it seemed to go into an infinite loop in that it kept finding new bad sectors (like in the above messages) and resetting its count-down counter to 1520ish every time, so looked like it was never going to finish. After around 36 hours I gave up, rebooted, and ran the maint menu reformat option, deleting everything. Seagate Pipeline HD 2000GB / 2TB 5.9K 6.0Gb/s SATA Hard Drive ST2000VM003- Brand New Specifications If the drive is connected to your Mac, you can use the Apple System Profiler to determine the model number and serial number.