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Formatting time for 10TB

  • 31-08-2019 09:16AM
    #1
    michaelpwilson
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    Hi there, I've just purchased a WD Red 10TB internal SATA drive and I'm full-formatting it with one partition under Windows 10. However, after 9 hours of formatting, Disk Management reports that only 2% of the format has been completed. Does anyone have any idea how long a full format of this drive should take? Thanks in advance!
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  • #2
    28064212
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    Why are you doing a full format? Just do a quick one, shouldn't take more than a minute or two

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    michaelpwilson wrote: »
    Hi there, I've just purchased a WD Red 10TB internal SATA drive and I'm full-formatting it with one partition under Windows 10. However, after 9 hours of formatting, Disk Management reports that only 2% of the format has been completed. Does anyone have any idea how long a full format of this drive should take? Thanks in advance!

    For a brand new drive, I think a Quick Format is best advised....there's zero need to do a full format.

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  • #4
    Serephucus
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    I don't know how long a format under Windows should take, but formatting a 10TB drive on Linux usually takes a little over a day, so 9 hours for 2% sounds... very slow.

    I'd cancel that, do a quick format, then run HDTune or something on it just to be safe.


  • #5
    z0oT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭z0oT


    I've 2 10TB NAS drives in my server which runs Windows.

    Did a quick format on both when I got them - It was less than a minute on both I think.


  • #6
    michaelpwilson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭michaelpwilson


    Thanks for all of your replies. I wanted to do the full format to verify if there were bad sectors. Will HDTune report these for me once I perform a quick format? Are there any other utilities for this that you could recommend? Thanks again.


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  • #7
    Serephucus
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    There are others. HDTune is what I've used with Windows machines in the past. Quick format to get it showing up in Windows, then you can run a full test. You'll see all the drive sectors fill up green (if good) or red (if bad) over time. Very obvious to see if there are any issues.


  • #8
    ED E
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    HDTune isn't really testing the surface. Tools like Spinrite do that but will take many hours. Say it's 3x r 3x w that's 60TB of transfer.


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