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I'm in the process of adding a 2TB hard drive to my home server, mainly for backups and archives. So before I format the drive I decided to run
SpinRite in maintenance mode to check that the drive is OK.
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You know you've bought a
huge hard drive when you realise that
SpinRite is going to take
nearly two weeks (13.75 days) to test it thoroughly. I think I'm going to have to do the testing in stages, because I don't want to have the server offline for two weeks during testing. That's a bit extreme ;-)
Update: I ran
SpinRite in "Emergency Recovery Mode" and it completed the job in around 5 hours.
Now I'm formatting the drive, and I'm curious to see how long that takes. It also took around 5 hours to do a proper format of the drive. I have copied around 1TB of backup files onto the drive, and it took most of the weekend to do. 2TB is a
lot of data!
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