- Apr 8, 2001
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Accidentally gave myself a good #Homer moment.
Have 2 data drives in one of my machines, .3 and 1tb. Recently got a 5tb to replace the .3. As part of this I'm also swapping the 1tb to gpt so in the end all current data is getting moved from one drive to another at least once, some twice.
All are WD drives and I did notice a speed improvement dropping the smallest deice. Data transfer from that one to the 1tb for a large folder clocked in at just under 2 hours while same folder between 1 and 5tb took under 50 minutes. All drives are 7200rpm data 3 or greater so not sure of the reason for this other than larger cache on the newer drives having abj pronounced effect.
For the doh!, for some reason I couldn't get the 1tb drive to convert to gpt. First I noticed it was showing 1.4gb used even though everything transferred off and a quick format done. So I decided to do a long format. That got used down to a hundred MB or so, but still was having an issue, at which point I finally realized that you can't initialize a partition until after changing the boot record type not before. Whoops.
Third computer I've gone through with this in the last month, would have thought I would have remembered.
Have 2 data drives in one of my machines, .3 and 1tb. Recently got a 5tb to replace the .3. As part of this I'm also swapping the 1tb to gpt so in the end all current data is getting moved from one drive to another at least once, some twice.
All are WD drives and I did notice a speed improvement dropping the smallest deice. Data transfer from that one to the 1tb for a large folder clocked in at just under 2 hours while same folder between 1 and 5tb took under 50 minutes. All drives are 7200rpm data 3 or greater so not sure of the reason for this other than larger cache on the newer drives having abj pronounced effect.
For the doh!, for some reason I couldn't get the 1tb drive to convert to gpt. First I noticed it was showing 1.4gb used even though everything transferred off and a quick format done. So I decided to do a long format. That got used down to a hundred MB or so, but still was having an issue, at which point I finally realized that you can't initialize a partition until after changing the boot record type not before. Whoops.
Third computer I've gone through with this in the last month, would have thought I would have remembered.
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