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!

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    14 hours ago

    There is some software you can get to check for bad blocks and then mark them do not write. This will allow you to salvage as much of the drive as possible. I recently got a dead 4tb drive fully restored and working. I hope you are as lucky!

    • The0utc4st@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      14 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
            2·
            9 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
              2·
              6 hours 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…🤣🤣