On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 2:05 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Matthew Campbell wrote: > > The process is complete. The 4 TB drive has been successfully blanked in > less than 40 hours using dd. It got done between 11 pm last night and 12 am > this morning. dd showed an overall average write speed of 28.4 MB/s. It was > never my intention to start a war. My sincere apologies if I have said or > done anything to offend anyone. I prefer to test out new hardware after I > buy it and I prefer to blank new hard drives before partitioning and > writing out new file systems. Thank you to each of you for your assistance. > > > > I think you stated your issue well, responded to queries, and > reported back with the results. Thanks for being part of the > community. > +1 I concur. I do things that some people think of as strange myself. Good luck, Matthew! Kenneth Parker >