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ReadNas backup hung? writing to usb attached drive
Hi,
I kicked off a backup to the 4tb usb drive connected to the front usb port, with 4 backup jobs of each of the shares in series. I'm doing this before I switch to OS6.
I could see the usb ...
I wouldn't assume that it's hung just yet.
What USB backup device are you using? Many are SMR drives, and they can be very slow when you are doing sustained writes - 9-10 MB/sec.
I'm using a Seagate portable 4tb disk, but as this is a legacy machine it can only operate at usb2 speeds. Still it seems very slow.
I see from a Google that Seagate have been shipping SMR disks since 2013.
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