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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/jpablomsan on 2024-10-28 04:36:56+00:00.

I’m reading only horror stories so far from people that had to wait 10+ hours (often having issues midway) when turning off BL on HDDs of just 1 or 2 TB.

Anyone here by chance have any experience doing this on a 10+TB HDD? I have a 20TB external drive arriving in the next few weeks so waiting for it to unload the 10TB HDD is also an option but not my first choice really.

EDIT: I forgot to ask. If I reduce the data down to 50% capacity, do you think is going to take less time? Or it won’t make any difference?