FYI

[Dan Jenkins]

On 4/27/2013 1:36 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>   FYI, running "badblocks -w" on a 3 terabyte hard disk takes a long time.

LOL, who knew?

A few weeks ago, I did that with two 2 TB drives sequentially. (Why
sequentially? ... because I wasn't thinking.)
I headed out of town on a business trip for a week, and arrived back in
time to watch the job finish.
Thankfully it was an in-house project that no one was waiting for.

I remember it taking 48 hours to prep a 40 MB (not GB) MFM hard drive
for Novell Netware oh so many years ago.

We are so spoiled nowadays - generally just pop drives in and go.