I have a new 8TB Seagate drive, extracted from a USB3 "Backup Plus"
drive and installed on a SATA3 connector. It has a single partition on
it.
The actual disk is a "ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z" which is an archive drive
so I'm not expecting stellar performance, but even so it feels very
slow.
For example, running up a Windows VirtualBox VM from that disk feels
like it's being dragged through treacle (the host PC is an i7-6700k
with 32GB RAM so it should run comfortably).
I'd speculate I may have poor disk alignment but I don't know how to
check; the results of Googling got me to
sudo parted /dev/sda "align-check optimal 1"
which reports "1 aligned".
Am I just pushing the drive in a direction it doesn't want to go?
Would it actually perform better if returned to the USB3 case? It
seems unlikely but then maybe Seagate hobble the drives for direct
SATA to discourage them being taken out?
I book from SSD and the purpose of the drive is actually archiving
anyway (the VM on it was only there temporarily) so if it's just how
it's supposed to be then I'll live with it.
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