Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:54:07 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I reseated the cables but it's still taking a long time to do anything.  >> Given my drive led is on, it's doing something.  I'm just not sure how >> fast it is doing it.  o_O  > Have you tried running the smartctl

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:54:07 -0600, Dale wrote: > I reseated the cables but it's still taking a long time to do anything.  > Given my drive led is on, it's doing something.  I'm just not sure how > fast it is doing it.  o_O  Have you tried running the smartctl selftests? -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:36:20 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Googled to see how to find out if it is aligned correctly and found >> this. >> >> root@fireball / # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size >> 4096 >> root@fireball / # >> >> I thought cgdisk did that automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:36:20 -0600, Dale wrote: > Googled to see how to find out if it is aligned correctly and found > this. > > root@fireball / # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size > 4096 > root@fireball / # > > I thought cgdisk did that automatically so I guess it did. gdisk -l

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-12 Thread Dale
taii...@gmx.com wrote: > Here are some theories. > > * You gotta properly align the sectors for 4K advanced format > * USB doesn't have NCQ which really slows things down. > * Copying many small files is almost always slow since they are located > on various parts of the drive not in a contiguous

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-12 Thread taii...@gmx.com
Here are some theories. * You gotta properly align the sectors for 4K advanced format * USB doesn't have NCQ which really slows things down. * Copying many small files is almost always slow since they are located on various parts of the drive not in a contiguous block (again see NCQ) * System is

[gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-12 Thread Dale
Howdy, I bought a 8TB hard drive.  Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the exact model info.  It seems to be slow.  First, I had it hooked to a adapter to a USB port.  I expected it to be a little slow but it gave me memories of the old dial-up days.  When it shows KBs/second, it's getting slow