25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
7:16 a.m.
>>>> "David" == David V Corbin
<dvcorbin at optonline.net> writes:
David> Others are just economies of scale. Consider disdk
David> formatting. If you look at MB/S then today's drives are MUCH
David> faster. If yuou look at "how long does it take to format this
David> new drive", then the answer is about the same.
Why would you format a drive, in the sense of writing all the blocks?
There is no longer any such thing as a "low level format". So unless
you're desperate to get rid of the manufacturing test pattern, you
might as well do a 30 second "quick format" to initialize the file
system.
paul