From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E73A5138334 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0310AE0C3F; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 813CEE0C35 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gXLJl-0005Wz-Gf for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:21:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:24:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <43afb4f2-e1ba-a558-7f80-2015d91b7177@gmail.com> <2dff49fd-191e-4a42-01ea-7b91b7973fd0@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 In-Reply-To: <2dff49fd-191e-4a42-01ea-7b91b7973fd0@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Archives-Salt: 659ed154-5ece-416d-b376-1fbea5e2795e X-Archives-Hash: beb5b6811ff39f60f8aa5deba92bd719 On 13/12/2018 09:11, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> 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.) >> >> >> > > > Well, after a lot more googling, I decided to start over and then > decided to use a different tool.  I ran dd for several GBs and then used > gparted to partition and format the drive with ext4.  Right now, it is > doing the format part. I'd still like to know what the output of "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda" is :P