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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:07:28 +0200
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On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I bought a 8TB hard drive.  Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the
> exact model info.  It seems to be slow.

What's the output of:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

(Assuming it's the sda drive.)