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4 months agoWhat drives? If they are shingled, your performance will be terrible and the array runs a high risk of failing.
CMR is the way to go.
SMR behavior is about like what you describe… Fast until the drive cache is filled then plummets to nothing.
Slackware. 1993.
I’m old lol.
Been through:
Slackware
Mandrake
Debian
Ubuntu
Redhat , old and new
Fedora
Arch
Knoppix
Pop!
CentOS
Enlightenment
Etc etc…
Right now I’m living on KDE Neon.