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Very similar issue to this post, asking in anticipation of installing Arch for learning and whatnot.

SSD Showing as two drives not one in GParted

Acer Aspire S7 with Kingston SMSR150 SSD, advertised as 128GB. Why do I see sda and sdb each having size of about half that? From what I understand, these are not partitions, but two physical devices. If this is truly the case, would you recommend a RAID config or something else?

fdisk -l gives:

Disk /dev/sda: 59.6GiB, etc. etc.
Units: Sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A2618D96-28AC-4A33-B6E0-DE8B09FD6A14

Disk /dev/sdb: 59.6GiB, etc. etc.
Units: Sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/sdc: 59.8GiB, etc. etc. (flash drive)
Units: Sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x865d48e5

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 125337599 125335552 59.8G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

~~update~~

lsblk -S:

NAME HCTL TYPE VENDOR MODEL REV TRAN
sda 0:0:0:0 disk ATA Kingston SMSR150 0.47 sata
sdb 1:0:0:0 disk ATA Kingston SMSR150 0.47 sata
sdc 4:0:0:0 disk Samsung Flash Drive 1100 usb

thx all!

Anj
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    Please also include the output of **`lsblk -S` and/or `lsscsi`**. – u1686_grawity Jul 04 '18 at 18:07
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    Apparently, Acer did indeed create a proprietary SSD that has two SATA channels to a single module and uses RAID0 by default. Completely moronic, but then again – it’s Acer. – Daniel B Jul 04 '18 at 18:11
  • @danielb - interesting, but not moronic. If an SSD is about speed that will increase it. Quite clever actually - but yes, hard to use. – davidgo Jul 04 '18 at 18:20

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