Big Drive Is Here

It came!

<ST24000NM000C-3WD103 SN02> – The certified refurbished Samsung Exos 24TB drive has arrived.

After doing a partition create on it, it showed the drive had only 22TB of counted, usable space:

$ gpt list ada1
...
first: 40
entries: 128
scheme: GPT
Providers:
1. Name: ada1p1
   Mediasize: 24000277209088 (22T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 4096
   Stripeoffset: 0
...

and once I created a single-disk pool for it, that usable space dropped to 21.8TB:

$ zpool list bigdisk
NAME      SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
bigdisk  21.8T  2.47T  19.3T        -         -     0%    11%  1.00x    ONLINE  -

But… it’s here, and populated with data I was carefully mirroring on external platter drives.

I think now I can start looking at what it takes to build my backup / offline service collection…