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Old 13th September 2019
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I have a 2 TB hard disk that am throwing into a home server. It was in an old machine but has been sitting on my workbench for a time. Before I formated it, I decided to run
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glabel list
on it. It shows and old FreeBSD partition, but the partition is corrupt.

Anyway, I decided to try
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gpart restore
on it. It been running for 20 hr or so now. How long should this take to do something or fail?
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This may be the first signs of mechanical failure. Sometimes you can notice a tremendous performance drop when the mechanism starts wearing out: the disk slows down then stops working completely, especially when being subjected to long and intensive processes such as dump/restore, dd, etc.
While it may not give you a definite answer, you probably should run sysutils/smartmontools.

Also try changing cables. You can't imagine how much trouble a bad cable can cause you!
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Thanks for the reply.

You might be on to something about mechanical failure, the drive is older and I hadn't thought of that because of how it got corrupt - power failure. Gonna try smartmontools
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If read performance degraded due to retries, the drive electronics should record it S.M.A.R.T. logs. Retries are usually noticeable due to the elapsed time for rotation delay with each attempt.
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