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Formatting time for 10TB

michaelpwilson

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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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.

Serephucus

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.

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.

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.

Serephucus

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.

ED E

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.