[X4U] External HD Reliability?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:40 PM -0500 2/27/08, Dave B wrote:
>from Costco, and a lot less than going to the local Apple reseller. 
>After assembly I always use disk utility to erase the disk, also 
>choosing the security option of 'zeroing out data' and leaving it 
>over night to complete.
>
>Every once in a while I'll have a drive that has issues with being 
>zero'd. TechTool will usually find bad blocks, and the TT report is 
>good enough for the wholesaler to do an 'over the counter exchange'.
>
>If the data is valuable enough to keep, it is worth the minor 
>inconvenience. Especially when I get a drive that has issues from 
>new.

I learned the hard way to do this about two months after 10.4 was 
released.  I'd done a quick erase on the drive I bought to install 
10.4 onto.  Big mistake.  I always do this now.

Zane


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