[geeks] Old spinning iron needs good home

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Aside: I might ask this separately, but just quicklyb& MacOS seems to
> handle USB3 drives very slowly unless it thinks the link is going to a
> USB3 mass storage device.

It might be treating the drive as "removable" rather than "fixed," and
waiting for I/O operations to complete, rather than relying on cache.

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