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1 year agoStopped gnome-disks format at 78% (~6 hours remaining).
Used sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1M seek=1001250 status=progress, write speed is ~100 MB/s.
Thanks a ton!
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It’s connected over USB 3, it’s SMR
Yes I am overwriting it with zeroes while formatting (using gnome-disks). I didn’t know it did multiple overwrites, thought it did 1 pass overwrite with zeros.
Yup I am zeroing it.
That explains the declining speed. Thanks a lot for the insight!
This is not recommended for USB connected drives