About how long to long format 500 GB My Book
stever...@sbcglobal.net
I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to
NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected
to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around
to catch any bad sectors.
My system:
Dell 8300 BIOS A07
1.25 GB RAM
2.8 GHz Intel
Win XP Pro SP 2
Would the overall time be greatly affected by my doing other tasks on
other drives while it is formatting? Does it matter if other USB
external devices are attached?
Thanks everyone, Steve
David Vair
to 45 minutes but I didn't watch the exact time.
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<stever...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Rod Speed
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to
> NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be expected
> to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first time around
> to catch any bad sectors.
Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for themselves.
> My system:
> Dell 8300 BIOS A07
> 1.25 GB RAM
> 2.8 GHz Intel
> Win XP Pro SP 2
> Would the overall time be greatly affected by my doing
> other tasks on other drives while it is formatting?
Depends on what those other tasks involve.
> Does it matter if other USB external devices are attached?
Nope.
Tom Scales
Accidently did one on an internal 750gb drive and gave up and went to lunch.
Don't know how long it ran, but at least 90 minutes.
<stever...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Frodo
Get the WD Data lifeguard tools (for Windows) and us it to format the hard
drive.
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1
It's way faster to format a hard drive using the software available from the
hard drive manufacturer over Microsoft's formatting software.
Western Digital software for Western Digital hard drives
Seagate Software for Seagate drives
You get the picture?
I use Seagate's Diskwizard software for my Seagate drives.
<stever...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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stever...@sbcglobal.net
> It's way faster to format a hard drive using the software available from the
> hard drive manufacturer over Microsoft's formatting software.
Thanks for this tip and everyone else for theirs, Steve.
Tom Del Rosso
news:52hmlhF...@mid.individual.net
> stever...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to
>> NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be
>> expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first
>> time around to catch any bad sectors.
>
> Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for
> themselves.
But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no? The format
will give it a reason.
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Rod Speed
> Rod Speed <rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote
>> stever...@sbcglobal.net wrote
>>> I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External
>>> to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be
>>> expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first
>>> time around to catch any bad sectors.
>> Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for themselves.
> But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no?
Nope, it keeps track of what sectors get accessed.
> The format will give it a reason.
Pointless, use will do that fine.
Arno Wagner
> "Rod Speed" <rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:52hmlhF...@mid.individual.net
>> stever...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to
>>> NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be
>>> expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first
>>> time around to catch any bad sectors.
>>
>> Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for
>> themselves.
> But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no?
> The format will give it a reason.
True. But if you want to do that, run a long SMART selftest
instead. The problem with the long format is that you will not see
problems the drive could correct. Basically the format-test will not
tell you anything, unless the drive has really serious problems. The
SMART self-test will, as it will also change the SMART attributes. The
drive itself will tell you how long it is expected to take for the
long self-test. Unfortunately you will have to remove the drive from
its enclosure and connect it directly via (S)ATA, since SMART
does not work over USB (the SMART stuff is not part of the USB
storage command set....).
Arno
Sparky Spartacus
> "Rod Speed" <rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:52hmlhF...@mid.individual.net
>> stever...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to
>>> NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be
>>> expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first
>>> time around to catch any bad sectors.
>> Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for
>> themselves.
>
> But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no? The format
> will give it a reason.
Not any more, that's done at the factory. Use quick format. I wouldn't
bother with a full format/scan unless I suspected there was something
wrong with the HDD.
As always, YMMV
Folkert Rienstra
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Tom Del Rosso <td...@att.net.invalid> wrote:
> > "Rod Speed" rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:52hmlhF...@mid.individual.net
> > > stever...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External to
> > > > NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be
> > > > expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first
> > > > time around to catch any bad sectors.
> > >
> > > Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for
> > > themselves.
>
> > But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no?
> > The format will give it a reason.
>
> True. But if you want to do that, run a long SMART selftest instead.
> The problem with the long format is that you will not see problems the
> drive could correct.
There is no such difference.
> Basically the format-test will not
> tell you anything, unless the drive has really serious problems.
Nonsense.
The offline test doesn't do anything more that the drive would do during
normal operations.
> The SMART self-test will, as it will also change the SMART attributes.
So will any read/write action to the drive as long as SMART is active.
> The drive itself will tell you how long it is expected to take for the
> long self-test. Unfortunately you will have to remove the drive from
> its enclosure and connect it directly via (S)ATA, since SMART
> does not work over USB (the SMART stuff is not part of the USB
> storage command set....).
Exposing you to the risk of killing it in the process.
>
> Arno
Tom Del Rosso
> <td...@att.net.invalid> wrote:
>> "Rod Speed" <rod.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:52hmlhF...@mid.individual.net
>>> stever...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to format a new 500 GB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External
>>>> to NTFS and was curious as to how long a "long format" should be
>>>> expected to take. I am using the Long vs. Quick method this first
>>>> time around to catch any bad sectors.
>>>
>>> Waste of time now with modern hard drives that do that stuff for
>>> themselves.
>
>> But the drive needs to have a reason to look at each sector, no?
>> The format will give it a reason.
>
> True. But if you want to do that, run a long SMART selftest
> instead. The problem with the long format is that you will not see
> problems the drive could correct. Basically the format-test will not
> tell you anything, unless the drive has really serious problems.
What I had in mind was checking the SMART data after the long format -- not
expecting the format program to report anything -- but a long SMART test
will do the same I guess.
> The
> SMART self-test will, as it will also change the SMART attributes. The
> drive itself will tell you how long it is expected to take for the
> long self-test. Unfortunately you will have to remove the drive from
> its enclosure and connect it directly via (S)ATA, since SMART
> does not work over USB (the SMART stuff is not part of the USB
> storage command set....).
Thanks.
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