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Out of context: Response #3 [Sep 8, 09, 9:07 a.m.]

• acescence

  well, if you do a plain ol format, it should take seconds. if you do a low-level or secure format, it takes forever (and is pointless in most cases). secure writes zeros to every sector 8 times, which as you can imagine, takes forever.

  • Does OSX have a secure format option?– designbot1/5

    secure is only necessary when you don't want anyone to recover the data that was there.– acescence2/5

    it does– acescence3/5

    that's cool, but yes your right....if this is what sea sea did it is going to take forever...especially over USB :)– designbot4/5

    i can wait i just would hate for it to be idle and me thinking it's doing something... i can feel the gray hair sprouting.. lol– sea_sea5/5

  

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