workermaster Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 I have had some trouble getting a full read check done. I downloaded the diskspeed plugin and found one HDD that does not work correctly. Here is what diskspeed reports: Everytime I run it again, it shows me a weird graph like that again. Nothing is using the drive while running this test. Other drives in the system show a normal graph. Even if they are in use during the test. I assumed that the drive was bad but there are no SMART errors: Is this drive bad or is there something that I could do to fix it? Would formatting it help? tower-diagnostics-20211124-1242.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 14 minutes ago, workermaster said: Would formatting it help? I can't imagine how since format only writes those small number of bytes of filesystem metadata that represents an empty filesystem. Quote Link to comment
workermaster Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 2 hours ago, trurl said: I can't imagine how since format only writes those small number of bytes of filesystem metadata that represents an empty filesystem. I was thinking that maybe there were some weird files on there that got corrupted which caused the slow reads. I have never seen a drive not work correctly without any SMART errors or weird sounds. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 You can try a full disk write, it might help or not. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 There's intermittent reports of some drives being slow in spots in the diskspeed support thread. Quote Link to comment
workermaster Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 4 minutes ago, Squid said: There's intermittent reports of some drives being slow in spots in the diskspeed support thread. Unfortunately, It shows the same behavior when I do a read check. Quote Link to comment
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