On Monday 05 Sep 2016 10:42:34 Hans wrote: > On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: > > I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive > > that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files > > in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for > > example a virtual machine image file, from one computer > > to another. This hard drive is preformatted with NTFS. > > Now, I am going to format it with ext4 which probably > > will take a lot of time taking into account that it is > > going to be done via USB connection. So, before formatting > > this hard drive I would like to know if it is still > > advisable to partition big hard drives into smaller > > logical ones. > > > > For about 20 last years, following an advice of my older > > colleague, I always partitioned all my hard drives into > > the smaller logical ones and do very well know all > > disadvantages of doing so. :) > > > > But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big > > hard drive into smaller logical ones? > > > > Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive > > into smaller logical ones and why? > > I use 2TB USB drive with one EXT4 partition. Took about 30 seconds to > format connected to a USB2 port. Testing the drive with dd and copying > files to the drive is very slow. Don't touch "Green Drives". They die > like flies.
Did you get the logical and physical sector aligned when you partitioned them? (if not sure, google for 4k sector drives). All recent versions of fdisk/gdisk/parted and friends will align them by default. How did you test it with dd and how are you copying files? How slow is slow in this case? -- Regards, Mick
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