> Are you 100% sure it has the exact same number of sectors?  While more
> recently, most vendors have settled on the IDEMA calculation for
> number of available sectors, some drives sold into retail and/or some
> models may not follow this, leaving you with a slightly different
> number.
>
> The "IDEMA" size for a 500GB disk is 976,773,168 sectors.
>
> That Samsung drive would be about 13,000 sectors short, if your other
> disks are IDEMA sized.
>
> FYI, the formula is: sectors = 97696368 + (1953504 * ((Size in GB) - 50))
>



So you're saying zfs does absolutely no right-sizing?  That sounds like a
bad idea all around...


--Tim
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