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External FireWire: How long to initialize?!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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I've just bought a Maxtor OneTouch 250GB FireWire & USB External Hard Drive. I started a "zero data" initialization 13 hours ago (11:30 PM CST) with OS X's Disk Utility.
How long is this supposed to take? 
Aye caramba,
BD
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Join Date: Dec 1999
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With a 250GB drive it should take awhile, but 13hrs is a little excessive. I would say maybe 2 depending on the machine you are doing it on.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Word up... 14.5 hours. Now I've got to decide if this is a plausible backup solution (based on the fact that Apple KnowledgeBase articles seem to have a B-I-G gripe with external FireWire devices and B&W G3's).
Hmm...
BD
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Old Europe
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That Maxtor is the one featuring a useless lengthy blue button, right? Nice enclosing, at least.
We had such a drive attached to PCs, but did not get more than 8 MB/s from an exteral SCSI-Raid to that drive. The operator had a nice time watching this 
Good luck,
M.
PS: Next time initializing, can't you refrain from the surface scan? I believe it's useless anyway, all the modern drives have automatic error correction and remove bad sectors for themselves.
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