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    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.

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    • Does OSX have a secure format option?designbot
    • secure is only necessary when you don't want anyone to recover the data that was there.acescence
    • it doesacescence
    • that's cool, but yes your right....if this is what sea sea did it is going to take forever...especially over USB :)designbot
    • 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.. lolsea_sea
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