On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM Charles Curley
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 May 2026 02:38:48 +0500
> "Alexander V. Makartsev" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > As an additional thought, there could be something wrong with the
> > OP's HDD drive, like bad\remapped sectors, or any other issue, making
> > its write speed even slower.
>
> If the OP hears the heads home, I wonder how old that drive is, and
> therefor, how reliable.
++. If the drive is making noise, it is time to retire it. And
quickly. Which appears to be confirmed by OP:
The last thing I saw before the laptop powered off was a series of
messages reporting that both external drives had failed to unmount
cleanly, and this was confirmed by the nasty clunking noise from the
drives indicating sudden parking of the drive heads when the USB power
was unexpectedly removed.
Jeff
