200g hd
200g hd
OMG, there has Got to be a better way to format in the future, this takes FOREVER! fricken over 2 hours! I went to a damn MOVIE came back and it isnt done yet! WTF!
If there isnt a better way in the future, we are ALL in trouble, and so is the PC industry, cause no one is gana deal with this stuff! its nutz!
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If there isnt a better way in the future, we are ALL in trouble, and so is the PC industry, cause no one is gana deal with this stuff! its nutz!
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Ok, well, to add to the bunch - I have a 10MB hard drive from my old Amstrad that I''ll trade ya for - probably format that thing in about 10 seconds.
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Ok, well, to add to the bunch - I have a 10MB hard drive from my old Amstrad that I''ll trade ya for - probably format that thing in about 10 seconds.
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hmm
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If I was gana do something liek that I have a ful lsize HD, one of them ones that takes up like 2 5.25 bays. It uses the wierd plug on the floppy cables that dont even exist anymore.
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If I was gana do something liek that I have a ful lsize HD, one of them ones that takes up like 2 5.25 bays. It uses the wierd plug on the floppy cables that dont even exist anymore.
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RAID reduces format times.....or at least in my experience.
However, nexus brings up a valid point. If we are going to spend massive amounts of money on big harddrives they need to format in a semi-decent amount of time.
However, nexus brings up a valid point. If we are going to spend massive amounts of money on big harddrives they need to format in a semi-decent amount of time.
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They should come preformated.. heh.. Hows that for an idea? lol..
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What about using the partitioning/formatting software that comes with the drive? The last time I formatted a Maxtor, I used it's software to partition and format in one step. On a 40 gig drive, it took less than 2 minutes, but I was using Win98. You would think that someone would have a "state of the art" software for formatting purposes.
yea, I dont know. Im not to keen on using hd mfg software. It is kind of like using drivers for mice. But maybe I should. Then again I dont have it anymore.
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I Dunno if.....
It's the software limiting the speed of the format, or the hardware itself, and the massive amounts of data (1s and 0s) or whatever it may be, that it has to write to the surface of the entire disc. But, I don't know much about that part.. I still think it wouldn't be hard at all for them to preformat the drives. They do sell a tool (I think I saw it in MaxPC) that will format the drive for you automatically. You just hook the drive up to the tool and it does the rest. I don't remember the times though, but I know it was faster than 2 hours.. eGo
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