....is how long the Format takes
/yawn
....is how long the Format takes
/yawn
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
The other problem my friend, is what the heck do back them up to?
[GSV]Trig (16-06-2009)
Just to make it even more annoying, format isn't actually doing anything to the disk - just checking that it can read every sector...
Because formatting a hard drive doesn't mean 'formatting' in the sense that it writes to every location on the disk, unlike formatting a floppy.
Formatting a floppy disk actually does lay down the sector markers and the associated sync bits and so on. However, formatting va hard drive just means writing the file system onto the disk. In the case of Windows, that involves writing the MFT and its mirror and a few other bits and pieces. I'm don't know much about HFS (or HFS+) but if it is a simpler structure, that would explain why it is quicker. Formatting ext3 is also reasonably fast.
(And that is also why formatting a hard drive is not a secure method of wiping a drive for disposal)
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Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
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Only if your drive is not DOA. I always format my drive then do a HDTune surface scan before filling in data. I bought over 3 dozen of harddrives in the past 5 years and have a DOA (or DOF) rate of 15%-ish.
You will be banging your head on the wall if the drive fail when you're moving stuff into it after a quick format.
I really don't see any reason why anyone want to rush to use the new harddrive?
Funkstar, I am always scared of expanding an array, because I am not sure what will happen if there is a power / drive failure DURING the expansion, which can take up to 4-5 days for a huge array. Usually I just get 4 / 8 drives and setup a whole new RAID5/6 and move everything over and recreate the old array.
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