Formatting large hard drives.

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  1. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    I just formatted a 1.5TB drive (maxtor) and it took ....

    ten hours.

    :eek:h:
     
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    Barc0de Mythical Member from Time Immemorial

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    Formatting in the orthodox way takes much longer than Quickformat. You shouldnt have any trouble Quickformatting it ;)
     
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    Why, what went wrong?
     
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  4. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    I formatted it in xp using 64k clusters for large files.

    And it just took that damn long.
     
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  5. GaijinPunch

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    Wow... 1.5TB of porn.
     
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    Barc0de Mythical Member from Time Immemorial

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    GaijinPunch, that could be an uncompressed cinema porn. A single file for 1.5TB;)
     
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  7. WolverineDK

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    He he, what do you call a porn movie, that is four hours long ?

    "extended playtime" ;-)
     
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  8. ASSEMbler

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    1080p porn?

    It's actually for HD TV rips, an hour show is 4GB.
     
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    hehe, let's not forget that the only 1080p porn people will be watching is on HD-DVD and not Bluray if I recall!

    Btw, a cinema movie that is 1.5TB uncompressed is at much higher resolution than 1080p. There's a good reason they re still kept on reels
     
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  10. Cheese007

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    I didn't even know they made drives that big.:eek:h: At least not for commercial use anyways. Got any pics of said drive?
     
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  11. kammedo

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    And just wait to get a 10 TB hdd in hand :lol:
     
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    Yeah, I remember my HTML design teacher saying that he and a group of others were working with "True" sound files which were 500 megabytes big before compressing. What is the extension for a true sound file like that anyways?

    And I thought Wavs were huge.
     
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    There you go, just something about wavs:
    And they say something about uncompressed WAVs too..so I presume its uncompressed?
     
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    It's an external box, it's just three 500gb drives spanned, I'm using it to help me organize before I raid everything. I have to empty the drives first then initiate..

    http://www.maxstore.com/product.asp?sku=3163984

    For some reason the best buy by me had it for $500 on sale.
    Instant snag.

    This store makes mistakes all the time, once I went to buy a ream of paper, she scanned the barcode and it
    rang up the same price as ONE ream, for a case. $5.50 for a case of HP laser paper.
     
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    What do you use to rip the TV stuff? I assume it comes straight off the box somehow?
     
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    assembler owns a castle to store goods in, he can afford 1.5tb hdd's no sweat
     
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  17. Mark30001

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    I don't think I'll be buying another Maxtor OneTouch drive after mine had problems. The customer service was horrible; they didn't know what on earth they were doing (both via email and phone).
     
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    Oh don't talk to me about Maxtor, I recently misplaced the CD to my Maxtor one touch external drive and as I stuck a password on the drive, I couldn't access the files, no problem I though, just download them, except you can't. So contact customer services who were not much help and wanted me to spend $20 for another CD, in the end copied one from a download site... >_< Still the drive is good and has taken a number of knocks from being moved around a lot.
     
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  19. Taucias

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    I also recommend Maxtor - I put a 160GB SATA 3.5" drive in an enclosure after removing it from a PC build I left in the UK. Runs sweet as a nut, very quiet too.

    Western Digital can rot though :evil:
     
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  20. ASSEMbler

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    Hehe, not really. It goes back to the store when I'm done.
    Another best buy 30 day "rental"
     
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