I bought a new larger backup drive yesterday. It's marketed as being 12 terabytes. Formatted, it's actually between 10.5 and 10.81 TB, depending on the file system in use. It will require 3.5 days to perform the surface scan to verify that the disk has no bad sectors, and then 2 more days to encrypt it. Next month I'll need to repeat this procedure with a second such disk. This is getting ridiculous.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
