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
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?
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Neil Bothwick
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
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
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
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
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
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