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. -dsr-
