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!
This is the usual behaviour of ultra cheap flash drives.
They have some cache to show a ‘good’ performance at the beginning, if your measurement goes only a very short time. Then only crawl.
Actually you want cache even in good drive. The difference is the slow flash chips in the cheap drives crippling out as soon as the cache is used up.
I might want to have a sit down and talk with your autocorrect about that first sentence!
Corrected.