Howdy all, Little update here. Rich, I think you mentioned it would slow down when it ran out of PMR space while trying to redo the shingled part. Up until now, I hadn't ran into that issue. It seems the PMR section for this drive is somewhere around 40 or 50GBs, maybe 60GBs. I hadn't had time for backups in over a week so it was a good bit larger than usual. It was around 70GBs, maybe 75. When it got close to the end of the rsync process, I noticed it slowed down quite a bit. I'd guess about half or so. Usually it runs at around 180 to 190MBs/sec for larger files. Pretty close to the end, rsync was showing around 100MBs/sec at best. It was a little over on some but mostly a little below that. Earlier in the process, it was the normal speed.
I might add, even tho the copy process has been done for a while now, 20 minutes or more, I can still feel that little bumpy thing it does. It seems to have stopped while typing that in. Unless it is taking a break and starts up again. ;-) Still, for this use case, it works OK. I wouldn't want SMR on my /home or some other partition that needs to be fairly fast at all times. For windoze users, well, they used to that slow down and freezes so they wouldn't notice the difference. ROFL Dale :-) :-)
