So i’m testing one of the drives I got on amazon using an old computer. It started off promising, didn’t get any errors when formating the drive, write speed using a usb adapter at 25mb/s… Then it dropped off to 7mb/s and the expected time shot up from 40hours to 156h🤣
I’m going to let it run over night and see what happens in the morning. If I can get it to show 4tb without error I might still keep them to test out my geekworm pi nas, otherwise back to amazon you go!
$65 for 4tb? they’re almost certainly fake crap. just got done giving someone the bad news on some similarly-priced sd and ssd they bought off ebay.
https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm will verify real capacity in seconds.
If it starts fine, but performance drops off a cliff after a while, it might be a heat issue.
I ended up putting such a flaky drive in a bag and wrapping a flexible icepack around it.
Not a great solution, but kinda good enough to get some data off of it.Might do better if I take the plastic cover off the enclosure… Might do better if I put a heat sink on it… Might do better if they weren’t fake nvmes 🤣🤪
7 MB/s is insane. That’s 1000x slower than a real SSD.
Don’t worry, it’s much worse than that now. It’s showing 1.63 now and estimated 611h until completion. These are going back to amazon
It’s probably either failed or they faked the size, and that’s the average speed of the entire operation now. But yes, it’s abysmal
There is some software you can get to check for bad blocks and then mark them do not write. This will allow you to salvage as much of the drive as possible. I recently got a dead 4tb drive fully restored and working. I hope you are as lucky!
Sorry, I don’t think I worded that properly, these are mew drives I got off amazon, 4tb for $65 each. i’m running a test to see if they’re any good or pure garbage using an old computer at work 😅
Oh then you’re cooked. Those are 100% scam drives.
Probably, I was just hopping amazon made a mistake on the price or something 🤪
let me know if they actually end up having full capacity, because slow drives I can deal with. That price per TB is close enough to spinning metal to finally tip the scale for me towards SSDs
I will let you know in 20 days 😅🤪🤣
