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I bought a new SSD from Other World Computing. Unfortunately, now that I've got it installed, it's showing up as 14 individual disks, only one of which is actually of the advertised size:

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Meanwhile, it shows up in the GUI Disk Utility as a single drive, as desired:

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I can't think of a way to wipe the actual hardware, and reset how it appears to the OS; I can only reach individual disk-identifiers (/dev/disk4) with Disk Utility. I've already used the GUI Utility to re-partition it as a single, large empty space I don't know what else to do to clean this up.

Gaff
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ELLIOTTCABLE
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    It looks like you took these shots in Recovery mode, in which case these are various virtual disks used by recovery mode itself to fake up a usable OS X environment while running from a read-only disk image. On other words, they have nothing to do with the SSD. See [this previous answer](http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/22941/what-is-the-mac-os-x-base-system-disk-image-on-my-2011-macbook-air/23081#23081). – Gordon Davisson Sep 13 '15 at 17:40
  • Ooo! That might be it. Post this as an actual answer, which will give me a chance to ‘accept’ it if I can later verify that? – ELLIOTTCABLE Dec 08 '15 at 17:58

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Those are not part of your disk. They are fragments of memory of 512KB used as additional virtual disks by the OS in order for it to have a form or disk write access without affecting your original disks. The 5MB one was initially created and it was not enough, so the smaller ones were added.

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