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I bought a new 5TB Seagate backup plus portable external HDD. When connected with Manjaro, it shows only 3.64 TiB.

My calculation shows that 5TB should be more than 4.5 TiB. What could be wrong? On the HDD it is written as 5TB

Seems like something wrong. I tried the commands mentioned in the post and I get a WD hard drive instead of a Seagate one. I think this one is not getting detected. I wasn't aware of a WD drive in my machine.

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    what does gparted show for the drive?
    – Mokubai ♦
    Commented Oct 28, 2023 at 16:42
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    Which disk model ?
    – harrymc
    Commented Oct 28, 2023 at 16:44
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    what's the output of sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdX and sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdX and/or lsblk -b /dev/sdX for the drive? Replace X with the lowercase letter so that it matches your drive. Please append to the question if possible.
    – cachius
    Commented Oct 28, 2023 at 16:54

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3.64 TiB equal 4 TB. You maybe got a 4TB drive. The Seagate® Backup Plus portable drive exists in 4 and 5 TB versions. You can verify your drive with the number below the QR code on the disk label at https://verify.seagate.com/verify/

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