So, long story short. I bought two cheap 2.5" 1TB Seagate Green Drives. Used them to download some files files too. Under 30% of the capacity.
A while ago I was noticing that it was behaving strangely. Originally thought it was a glitch in network share NFS. Would only read under 5MB/s transfer speed to my main PC. I know GB Lan is around 125MB/s, and junky HDD’s should still be around that speed / slightly under. 5 MB/s is… excessively slow.
The two drives (note both are called vdrive for, volatile drive. Because I expected they were junk)
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 931.5G 0 part /mnt/vdrive
sdc 8:32 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 931.5G 0 part /mnt/vdrive-2
So ran a HD param check. Plus a few others, but to make this post condensed all came back around the same speed.
user@server:/$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 15054 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7544.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.13 seconds = 5.76 MB/sec
Second drive, not failing (yet)
user@server:/$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
Timing cached reads: 18098 MB in 1.99 seconds = 9073.80 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 398 MB in 3.01 seconds = 132.24 MB/sec
I guess I’m mostly curious, how common is this? I’ve not gotten a single corrupted file I’ve tried to copy to/ from the drive, I have zero read / write errors. I have no out of the ordinary issues in Smart. It’s just… horribly slow.
Anything I care about is off the drive, if it dies instantly tomorrow I won’t care. Just curious if anyone else encountered this kind of problem.