Plotting 1,8T drive
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hi i'm new and i am currently plotting my first drive its a 2T external drive with 1.8T of space and currently its taken 32 hours to do 40% of the drive is this normal? i used the all in one software to plot with 1 thread and 1 plot.
also what am i meant to put in the numerical id box?
Thanks any help would be great.
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Hi @scarecrow welcome to the community. What kind of external is it? Sometimes SMR drives, namely Seagate, will take a very long time to plot. Most of my drives are Seagate and every single one of them take a very long time to fill up
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@scarecrow Using just 1 thread for plotting will make it slow. You can restart with more cores, or resume with more cores - that'll speed it up.
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@Yottaphat its a Toshiba 2T Usb 3.0 Formatted for Ntfs
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@haitch Thanks ill give it a go
And thanks to you both @haitch and @Yottaphat :D
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Oh I'm sorry I didn't notice you saying 1 thread. Yes that will slow it down too! :)
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he just wondering does it matter what i put in the id box when plotting?
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@scarecrow Your Burst address.
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@haitch Thanks
