I recently bought WD Gold (WD4004FRYZ) to back up my old ST4000DM000 and its speed is fucking pathetic, especially when copying thousands of text files sometimes the speed drops to 25mb/s and even lower which is absolutely pathetic for a 7200rpm server drive with a five year warranty designed for raid and heavy 24/7 workloads, it performs similarly to my other SMR drives because I have other old CMR drives and I've never seen their speeds dropping below 60mb/s. Are these slimy fucks turning server drives into SMR as well?
most likely a troll post but no gold drives are not smr you are just retarded
>>107079659I'm not, I just did the same operation but copied everything to another ST4000DM000 and it went way faster. Maybe previous golds were CMR but this one seems to be fishy.
>>107079650>WD4004FRYZall info on the web tells you this is CMR, but its WD so who knows, maybe they snuck in SMR here as well>its speed is fucking pathetic, especially when copying thousands of text filesHDDs are slower on lots of tiny files compared to SSDs, if you wanted max performance you would put all those tiny files into an archive
>>107079650Do a store (no compression) into a tar file, it'll copy a lot faster. Hard Drives suck at lots of tiny files.
>>107079897>Hard Drives suck at lots of tiny files.*File systems suck at lots of tiny files.They aren't capable of correctly handling them on a HDD.
>>107079650>especially when copying thousands of text files sometimes the speed drops to 25mb/s and even lowerCould be a software problem.Windows explorer is stupidly slow when copying many small files.Robocopy (command line program made by Microsoft that comes standard with Windows) for example is much faster.
I copied a few thousand relatively small files amounting to 6GB on a WD8004FRYZ with 40000 hours on it and it was fast so I don't see why a WD4004FRYZ would be SMR or slow. Seems like the same series of drive.Depending on the exact kind of files you're copying and the kind of fragmentation you got, speeds dropping extremely low is pretty normal for a mechanical drive though. Worst case scenario is like billions of tiny 1 byte files. Those are a nightmare. These drives have a sector size that's 4096 bytes and logical sectors at 512 bytes so it's ultra fucked if you're copying tons of files smaller than that.
>>107080015>WD8004FRYZ It's a HGST HC320 Vela-AP model not WD (thankfully they just slapped a sticker on it without touching the firmware), one of the best hdds out there. It got recently replaced with a newer WD8005FRYZ Vela-A1 which has denser platters (four 2TB platters instead of five 1.67TB platters) and most likely is SMR. Same happened to WD4003FRYZ (HGST HC310) which got replaced by WD4004FRYZ.
>>107080104So you're saying the 4004FRYZ is a VELA-A1?
>>107080238According to warranty status - yes it is Vela-A1.
>>107080331So it seems. Mine is a VL8 according to warranty, and another one is VELAX1. Both of those perform normally.
