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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Reno on January 20, 2007, 22:06
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Harhar I've been needing this space. I was about 30 gigs away from filling up last week. I remember when 20gigs was an amazingly large hd. I kinda miss those days. I would've gotten a 500 but office depot didn't have it in stock and i didn't want to wait. O well. The 200 came with a $50 rebate off a $109 store charge. So it was the right price.
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nice im thinking about getting a 500gb external hard disk to addon to the 1000gb i have on this sytem, lol
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When i ran the shop i was on my way to getting 4 500s before hurricane rita hit. I wanted to have one tb to backup the other. Didn't work out that way though. When the tb drive comes out in a year or two ill do it with two drives instead of four.
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Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to format a 500Gb hard drive?
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so if you buy a new 500gb external hard disk you'd have to format it? ........... its not just like plug and go then
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it depends michelle - I have had ones that were preformatted, others I have reformatted.
I can't remember how long it took to format my internal one, must have been a while cause I went out, though I did format a 400gb or so one on my linux machine in about 5 minutes!
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If you select quick format its quite quick on a modern pc as it doesnt actually format the whole drive, just the equivalent of what would be the MBR on a boot drive.
If you select full format then it does a full surface scan after the format, sector by sector, which will take a long time even on a fast pc.