This is not recommended for USB connected drives
Stopped 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!
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!
Luckily, I got really exhausted and frustated, so hopefully it ended for now.
I’ll do mostly browsing, programming, some servers always running in the background like jellyfin.
Then I’ll be playing single player games on 2k ultrawide. Thinking all AMD for now, I’ll consider nvidia for path tracing for the next upgrade, but don’t need ray tracing for now.
Would like to reasonably futureproof it.