Unofficial Faster Preclear
I have developed a way to do the post-read and verify step of preclear dramatically faster than the current method (more than twice as fast). Functionally it is the same. I am looking for some folks that are planning to do some preclears this weekend, optimally someone planning to preclear 2 identical drives so we get a speed comparison.
Drop me a PM if interested. Hoping to get 2-3 volunteers. I will be preclearing a new 4T drive. I am on 32-bit 5.0.5 but hoping a 64-bit person runn
Heads up guys, this script (faster preclear by bjp666) also now needs patching due to 'scripts' command not included in unraid 6.5.1 (yes this is getting ugly), ive patched my own copy with a replacement of 'strings' (2 occurrences) with 'cat -v' which is actually a lot faster.
i have a copy of the fast preclear script, patched for sfdisk, dd and strings, so it SHOULD (not tested) be compatible with unraid 6.5.1 now, if anybody wants to give it a whirl feel free, but as i mentioned i
