On 11/26/2012 04:11 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
How is the disk formatting doing? ... IIRC (If I Remember Correctly)
NTFS takes an unreasonably long time to format. That is why M$
installations normally give a 'quick format' where the formatting is
done on demand (and completed as a background task) so installations
aren't ground to a halt when a new drive must be formatted.
In trying to find some facts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS has a
fairly interesting on NTFS, but I am sure it is not complete
Other articles talk about connection problems. If you can read the
SMART data on the drives, it might show some issues (to many bad
blocks, etc). One of the articles talked about NTFS doing a low level
test (writing zero's, the One's, doing read after write testing, etc)
but that may not be totally so.
No one seemed to have a 'silver bullet' solution. Most issues were
not well resolved without extended time.
If these are 'repurposed drives' checking the SMART data might be a
good idea anyway.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/226663/10_best_free_hard_drive_utilities.html
references using the free version of HDTUNE or Smartpass's HDCHECKUP.
Even the W$ command line tool of 'smartctl' ( smartctl -a sde -- or
whatever). They also mention some 'real time SMART' tools that do
continuous monitoring for low $.
<> ... Jack
Hey Jack, thanks for the rebound. Two and a half days in and we are 27%
formatted :) The drives are some flavor of referb from Newegg.
Driving them off one of the 3-ware RAID cards we bought way back when.
So now I'm also studying how to put \Users on a drive other than C: as
the boot drive is 80GB and the RAID is 2.8TB. I've found a couple of
links pointed in that general direction. Windows 7 does have symbolic
links that I shall likely put to work.
Howard
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