Posted on 02/27/2025 4:49:19 PM PST by Angelino97
“ESPECIALLTY the edge browser.”
The Win 10 laptop I just got has that Edge thing. I don’t get it, and I know I don’t like it.
USB 3.0 6TB HDD I would say between 10 to 14 hours if doing a full format and everything is working optimally.
Best guess for me as there are a lot of factors, the spin speed, actual USB performance, health of the drive etc..
As I recall a reasonable rule of thumb would be 2 hrs per TB for USB 3.0
“USB 3.0 6TB HDD I would say between 10 to 14 hours if doing a full format and everything is working optimally.”
Yep! I really doubt he did this. A 1.6 TB dump on disk not fully formatted is going to take a LONG time as the disk is formatted on the fly.
Could you be using an older USB port?
I wish.
Heat makes it worse, and dreaded summer is closing in.
Nope - Bangladesh and it can barely speak English.
Maybe, he said he used them new from box and they were already NTSC. WD would have done a full format at the factory, I hope.
I was getting this little window popping up trying to tell me something. It was a byproduct of Some AI crap trying to be helpful.
Mine is an MSI.
Ha.
In the 1980s there was a Charles Guindon cartoon of a heavyset cleaning lady at a corporate building, her cart filled with squeeze bottle fluids, towels, a mop and pail and a bag for paper waste.
Speaking confidently to two men in suits.
“These new fax machines are the way the Chinese are stealing all our secrets. Everything digital is copied and going over to China.”
Yeah, limited supply of T-Bolt 5 drives & docks, but a few here and more soon:
https://www.sweetwater.com/c774—Thunderbolt_5_External_Hard_Drives
https://www.owc.com/solutions/envoy-ultra
https://www.pcworld.com/article/393714/best-thunderbolt-docks-for-a-laptop-pc.html
“Maybe, he said he used them new from box and they were already NTSC. WD would have done a full format at the factory, I hope.”
My bad. Old man posting while watching TV.
NTFS. Passport drives are factory formatted with one exFAT partition.
LOL I just realized he did say NTSC and I went with it, I do a lot of video editing and work with NTSC and PAL from old TV formats. I just went braindead being familiar with NTSC
I should have caught that and corrected him pointing out he likely meant NTSF (since he uses windows), and yes I agree with you.
I’ve found it’s a short list of suspects, among them:
Garbage brands (I trust very few, and prefer HP)
Bloat
AV
Two AV’s running at the same time
Tinfoil (somebody’s spying and knows every keystroke)
Tinfoil 2 (nobody’s spying but you’re connected; go offline, it can’t hurt to try)
Equipment and peripherals — try other cables, other storage devices
Stuff running in the background that may be essential to Bill Gates but not to you
Killer update (system hopelessly corrupted, quit while you’re ahead)
Printer is involved. Printers are evil. Disconnect it.
An actual virus (this has never happened to me, in 20+ years).
The zippiest laptop I ever had, which still works fine, is an HP Windows 8. Its battery is long gone, its specs are modest and it tends to overheat, but it runs like Secretariat at Belmont. Second best, Son of Zippy, is another HP Windows 8, no connectivity whatsoever (intentionally). Storage only.
Third best, HP Windows 7. Also still works just fine and data moves like crap through a goose.
My Windows 10 machines, HP and Asus, are just ok. Win 11, so-so. The Mac cost more than any three others together and it’s only 3 years old, hardly anything in there, moves like a sloth.
If I had the time and patience I’d look into Linux.
PS: My 10’s and 11 don’t play well with Passport. They say bad things about it. It works fine with older machines.
Without reading the responses, my first thought is the limits of the USB port.
Ref https://www.techadvisor.com/article/742967/usb-speeds-types-and-features-explained.html
OS has little to do with it.
Edge is not your friend. That and Cortana (”I’m from Microsoft and I’m here to help you.”)
Solid state drives are fast. USB interfaces not so much.
It’s always easy for s/w to overwhelm h/w.
WAY back in the day, I used to be involved in embedded real-time control systems.
To get our systems job done we had to be very s/w smart wrt to the limitations of the h/w to get the job done. [think spaghetti code...]
Thank you for that!!
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