![]() Drive works fine.Īre some drives natively unable to do ext3? What is going on and why can't I format/use a brand new USB drive for ext3 in some reasonable time? I've seen others on the net complain about insanely slow USB ext3 formats, and the recommendations always devolved into "your drive is bad". I took the drive back to windows and formatted it NTFS in 30 seconds. Then I couldn't umount the drive because the Pi said it was busy for another 5 minutes or so. Then copying 100 MB of files took many minutes. Anyhow, when it was complete I shutdown and restarted the Pi and the drive auto-mounted. What?! At its advertised speed of 120 MB/sec, even if it re-wrote every sector, that should be only 17 minutes. It was formatted NTFS, but I plugged it into my Pi via a powered USB hub and gparted it to ext3. ![]() I purchased a Seagate 2TB Expansion USB 3.0 external hard drive, model STEA2000400, UPC 0763649064887.
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