So i’m testing one of the drives I got on amazon using an old computer. It started off promising, didn’t get any errors when formating the drive, write speed using a usb adapter at 25mb/s… Then it dropped off to 7mb/s and the expected time shot up from 40hours to 156h🤣

I’m going to let it run over night and see what happens in the morning. If I can get it to show 4tb without error I might still keep them to test out my geekworm pi nas, otherwise back to amazon you go!

  • The0utc4st@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    9 hours ago

    Sorry, I don’t think I worded that properly, these are mew drives I got off amazon, 4tb for $65 each. i’m running a test to see if they’re any good or pure garbage using an old computer at work 😅

        • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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          4 hours ago

          LOL

          You could buy 20 of them and make a RAID. So their cache sizes add up, and the total crawl speed as well 😆

          • The0utc4st@sh.itjust.worksOP
            1·
            1 hour ago

            I have 5 of them, i was going to make a raid with my geekworm pi nas dunno how much faster that would make them

            Cuz it’s nit looking good…🤣🤣