EMC HGST Drive showing ~1/2 of correct number of sectors

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mwarps

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I just snagged what I thought was a reasonable deal for a 2TB HGST drive. It's a HGST HUS726020ALA610.

What's messed up is that when I plug it in, it says it's an HUS726010ALA610, which is not a known part number.

the drive shows the following in my NAS:


da9 at mps0 bus 0 scbus33 target 15 lun 0
da9: <ATA HUS726010ALA610 T840> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da9: Serial Number K5HE89MD
da9: 600.000MB/s transfers
da9: Command Queueing enabled
da9: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)


Per the label this is a 2TB drive with 3,907,029,168 sectors.

Is there anything I can do to make the drive report the correct number of sectors? (Not afraid of sg3, just not well-versed)
 

mwarps

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Replying to myself here - After some pretty extensive searching, this drive is counterfeit.

HGST model is obviously bogus, but it also has the short part number "0F23114" which doesn't exist that I can find.

Serial is also bunk.