"Disks" takes 3 days to erase new 2 tb hard drive
by d-us-vb from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5D2AN)
I'm setting up a software RAID array with 3 Barracuda 2 tb drives, and the resource I was following said the drives needed to be erased and without a file system. The drives were new, fresh out of the box, but I decided to erase them anyway just to be safe.
I'm using the built in disk tool "Disks" on LMDE 4 to do this, but the strange part is that after it had been working for a few minutes, the speed of the process slowed down to 8 MB/s, then gradually over the 1 1/2 days, it's slowed down to around 4 MB/s. I thought temperature had something to do with it, but it doesn't seem to affect it that much after leaving the case open and putting a fan near them (they're kept now at a relatively constant 30 deg C). The tool says "disk is OK" for each of the disks.
I'm fairly certain these drives are designed to be written to much faster than 8 MB/s, so I'm wondering if anyone has a clue as to why it's going this slow. Does "Disks" do some extra work behind the scenes?
I'm using the built in disk tool "Disks" on LMDE 4 to do this, but the strange part is that after it had been working for a few minutes, the speed of the process slowed down to 8 MB/s, then gradually over the 1 1/2 days, it's slowed down to around 4 MB/s. I thought temperature had something to do with it, but it doesn't seem to affect it that much after leaving the case open and putting a fan near them (they're kept now at a relatively constant 30 deg C). The tool says "disk is OK" for each of the disks.
I'm fairly certain these drives are designed to be written to much faster than 8 MB/s, so I'm wondering if anyone has a clue as to why it's going this slow. Does "Disks" do some extra work behind the scenes?