Hi guys, so i am having a bit of a problem right now. I just bought my first 8 TB HDD, its Seagate Archive 8TB HDD, ST8000AS0002.
I have bunch of 4 TB hard drives including western digital and seagate but this my first 8tb. Now i know this drive that i just purchased isn't supposed to be fast as its 5900 RPM but that's fine with me because i won't be accessing it on regular bases. The purpose i bought is to keep all of my videos here in one place.
So i started moving all of my videos from my 4 TB hdd to 8 TB hdd but here is the issue, the transfer is going super slow, it started at 150 MB/s but after a minute or so it dropped and continue to drop to a low 5 yes FIVE MB/s and now its pinging between 50 MB/s to 10 MB/s consistently. I went out and returned after couple of hours to find out only 100 GB of data has been moved in couple hours and the time remaining is showing more then a day. Mind you the data i am moving is not small files but big video files ranging from 5 GB to 50 GB in size with lowest being 3.7 GB. The total data i am moving amounts to around 3.5 TB and it contains a total of 277 files.
I changed the hard drive cage which means a different SATA cable, different power cable and different port but the result is same. It starts above 100 MB/s but eventually drops down to single digits and then keep pinging between 5 MB - 50 MB. I also have 3 4 TB hdd's in my PC so i tried copying data from different drive and result was exactly the same. I also tried to copy data from 1 of my 4 TB hdd to another 4 TB hdd and the result was solid 100 MB/s+.
So finally coming down to point, are these hdd's (8TB Seagate archive) that slow or is something wrong with my drive? I don't hear any clicking sound and temps seem fine. Should i RMA my drive?
I have bunch of 4 TB hard drives including western digital and seagate but this my first 8tb. Now i know this drive that i just purchased isn't supposed to be fast as its 5900 RPM but that's fine with me because i won't be accessing it on regular bases. The purpose i bought is to keep all of my videos here in one place.
So i started moving all of my videos from my 4 TB hdd to 8 TB hdd but here is the issue, the transfer is going super slow, it started at 150 MB/s but after a minute or so it dropped and continue to drop to a low 5 yes FIVE MB/s and now its pinging between 50 MB/s to 10 MB/s consistently. I went out and returned after couple of hours to find out only 100 GB of data has been moved in couple hours and the time remaining is showing more then a day. Mind you the data i am moving is not small files but big video files ranging from 5 GB to 50 GB in size with lowest being 3.7 GB. The total data i am moving amounts to around 3.5 TB and it contains a total of 277 files.
I changed the hard drive cage which means a different SATA cable, different power cable and different port but the result is same. It starts above 100 MB/s but eventually drops down to single digits and then keep pinging between 5 MB - 50 MB. I also have 3 4 TB hdd's in my PC so i tried copying data from different drive and result was exactly the same. I also tried to copy data from 1 of my 4 TB hdd to another 4 TB hdd and the result was solid 100 MB/s+.
So finally coming down to point, are these hdd's (8TB Seagate archive) that slow or is something wrong with my drive? I don't hear any clicking sound and temps seem fine. Should i RMA my drive?