I have an existing drive near EOL (judging from the sounds). I got a
replacement drive for it (same size).
I plugged the replacement into a USB port and started a byte-for-byte
copy with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc
The process ran quietly for almost 30 hours with no discernable results
so i killed it. Apparently, it had been running the whole time and
resulted in approximately 300 of 500Gb copied. Is it 'usual' to have dd
take upwards of 2 days to copy a drive ?
The source drive is a 500G 5400rpm WD, and the target is a 500G 7200rpm
WD black.
Thanks for any input.
Regards
Jack
