Formatting big hard drives meh </rant>

[Dan McBoost]

doing some upgrading on the PC while I kill time on my lappy.

Productivity is at a seemingly all time low today..
Thanks for being here to entertain SM.

 

[Tanya]

Hi Dan! *waves*

 

[Dan McBoost]

Howdy Tanya!

232 mins to finish transferring my photos from the 250GB to the new one. meh!

 

[NgoFcukinWay]

Holy wow. I haven't seen Dan post around in a while.

 

[Dan McBoost]

I'm been just hanging around in the photo sections, but around is better than not.

With the new garage, expect to see a lot more of me. Supras are back on top of things to do (aside my home theater project).

 

[Dan McBoost]

My current mess in the Kitchen:

I moved out here since there was no room on my desk to turn the tower sideways because of the dual screens.

 

[drunk_medic]

1TB takes a long time for a "full format".

 

[Dan McBoost]

Just came back from a meeting and after 2.5 hours my 1TB drive is 99&#37; done!

One 500GB left to format

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

I need an external hard drive, Top Gear and HOuse take up a combined 83 gigs on my 112 gig storage drive.

time to go to Frys!

 

[Dan McBoost]

I hear ya. I currently have 2.9TB of room only ~10&#37; is free space, but this is because I am setting my photo/music/video HDs up for RAID. Once things are safe I need to expand further. I will be buying another case and 2 more TBs by the end of the year..

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

yeah, I built this box to run Source engine games. Using a Shuttle mobo(lol hella awesome) paralell drive connectivity(serial ATA was BRAND NEWWWW) and an AMD Barton Core processor.

Its rock fucking solid, But I have more music than 3 6 year oldish hardrives can hold.

 

[annoyingrob]

My 1.8TB SCSI raid 5 array takes about 20 hours to rebuild.

 

[IwantMKIII]

wierd, my 1TB took only about an hour....

 

[annoyingrob]

But is your 1TB calculating the parity across 12 drives?

 

[GrimJack]

Dammit, I agree. Had to format a 500G drive today, takes forever.

 

[IwantMKIII]

But is your 1TB calculating the parity across 12 drives?

:dunno:

 

[annoyingrob]

:dunno:

I was just saying mine takes so long to format because I have it set up with 12x181gb hard drives, so the controller has to read data from all of the drives, then write the parity. It's a RAID 5 setup. If you're unfamiliar with it, it allows any one of the 12 drives to fail, and the system can still function while you replace the drive.

 

[Dan McBoost]

More upgrading..

Bought two more 1TB SATA drives tonight. Formatting now and SATA is much faster than my older 1TB EIDE drive.

annoyingrob, what are you using for RAID software? TIA

 

[Dan McBoost]

Lost one of those two new 1TB drives a couple weeks ago, WTF. 10 months old and rarely accessed (was a manual backup drive).

This happened 3 days after I lost the drive in my laptop.... serious WTF.

So I bought a 320GB drive for the laptop, and threw in 4GB of RAM. Installed everything and had blue screens of death about every 15 mins. I searched a bit for the error, found people talking about hard drive issues (ITS NEW!).. Found one post about the internal battery and it may be going bad, so I took it out and left it out. Been fine ever since, haha.

Now I need to buy more drives for the tower. Oh the frustration..

 

[Mondo]

1TB takes a long time for a "full format".

Dont full format then..........

I have a 1TB external, Only 300 GB's left. All Movies