On 2025-02-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It had an M$ partition when I bought it. I replaced that with 4 >> partitions because using a 2/3.2 port took > 10 h to write a 256 GB >> filesystem & fail, whereas it took only 2 h 45 m to write a 64 GB >> partition & fail. > > There is something _seriously_ wrong with the device. > > 1. It shouldn't take anywhere near that wrong to create a > filesystem: there just isn't that much data written during an > 'mkfs' operation.
It also shouldn't take anywhere near that _long_ to create a filesystem. :)
