Jul 11, 21, 7 Matthiasa said:. Just because it is new doesn't mean it doesn't come preloaded with "fun" stuff from the factory. IronWing No Lifer. Jul 20, 62, 16, My 10meg drive took about twenty minutes so QueBert Lifer.
Jan 6, 21, I want to be sure there are no bad sectors. Rifter Lifer. Oct 9, 11, I never quick format a new drive.
A full format is always a good idea. I usually zero fill it 4 or 5 times in my server before putting it into service. I find that in my expericance a HDD will either take the abuse and run fine for a few years or crap out during the zero fills, in which case i can RMA it before i load it up with data.
C1 Platinum Member. Feb 21, 2, 56 Not sure if USB is even relevant. There's hardly any data transfer involved over the interface. Or is all of that too logical? Mar 21, 13, 6 Note that there is absolutely no ill effect to simply aborting the format and starting over. Specifically, starting over using an eSATA port. I second C1s advice Oddly enough, for most of its life its drives with heavy OR low usage that are most likely to fail, drives with average usage are least likely Last edited: May 12, Nothinman Elite Member.
Sep 14, 30, 0 0. Brand new or not, I don't trust new drives. Emulex Diamond Member. Jan 28, 9, 1 For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Fritz Well-Known Member. Apr 6, 2, It's been about 24 hrs. Mar 26, 1, Windows non quick format.
Feb 15, 7, 1, CA. And the answer is The drive is fine. Terry Kennedy Well-Known Member. But unfortunately, I lost some of the valuable family photos and stuff due to the bad data integrity on exFat Single journal file systems are evil and decided to turn it into an NTFS drive. PS- please consider changing the theme of the site. Hard to read the texts and irritate the eyes.
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Notify me of new posts via email. If both these pass, run a Long Self Test. So far we are from one to three hours into testing. I have seen many drives pass short and fail long tests, so yes I do both. This writes to each location where data can be written on the disk at least three times, and reads it to verify each time. Any failures are announced in the program. Bigger drives take longer.
Sixty gigabytes will be a few hours. Two terabytes will take two-ish days, roughly. The DBAN procedure erases all data on the drive and makes the disk useless until other steps are taken — and any viruses, including very sneaky ones, are VERY deleted.
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