USB hard disk drive copy speed is very slow

-= Check whether HDD is SMR =-

lsblk

lsusb

sudo fdisk -l

sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda

sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

Slow USB hard disk drive copying speed on Linux/Windows

sudo apt install smartmontools

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc

sudo smartctl -l

sudo smartctl -l error /dev/sdc

sudo smartctl -l devstat /dev/sdc

USB hard disk drive slows down boot and restart, works laggy, mounts long time

-= Backup all your data =-

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=4M status=progress // wipes all hdd data // 4 TB - 12 hrs

sudo apt install sg3-utils

sudo sg_raw -r 512 /dev/sdc 08 00 00 00 01 00

Create/convert table wtih GParted, AOMEI etc

Format with GParted, AOMEI etc

Test