I bought a Toshiba Canvio 1TB Simple 3.0 as a 3rd external disk for backing-up - others are an Imation M100 and a Samsung S2
I've always built my computers with two disks - first one for software, second for data
My backup strategy is copy all files from the data disk to a directory on an external disk, rotating the externals
I get four backups per each 1TB external disk, then reformat the external and start over
Recently I needed to do first reformat of the Toshiba
It was excruciatingly slow on my Intel DP965LT based system, so I swapped to a USB3 port on a SuperMicro C7Q67 setup, in case that was the root cause
It's just about complete - 48 hours later
Until now the Toshiba's been satisfactory, but 48-hour reformat time is unacceptable
I could try the quick format option, but don't have problems with complete format of the other two
I'm going to try getting a refund on the Toshiba
I've always built my computers with two disks - first one for software, second for data
My backup strategy is copy all files from the data disk to a directory on an external disk, rotating the externals
I get four backups per each 1TB external disk, then reformat the external and start over
Recently I needed to do first reformat of the Toshiba
It was excruciatingly slow on my Intel DP965LT based system, so I swapped to a USB3 port on a SuperMicro C7Q67 setup, in case that was the root cause
It's just about complete - 48 hours later
Until now the Toshiba's been satisfactory, but 48-hour reformat time is unacceptable
I could try the quick format option, but don't have problems with complete format of the other two
I'm going to try getting a refund on the Toshiba
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