I'm about to order a "bare drive" Western Digital 640Gb internal hard drive. This type comes without any installation disk or manual. NVM. I think I found what I needed.
That's old days! (but I remember those dreadful WD utilities!)Low level partitioning is nowadays handled internally and automatically by the drive, which actually presents a virtual disk geometry to the system. Further extensions allow the system to explore the real characteristics and state of the drive for optimization.The OS will do the high level format of course.Sit back and relax, it's all plig and play, nothing can po&/(($()))))$&&&""%/$
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Haha. It's been a while since I last did a drive. So you're saying the drives are plug and play now?What I'm doing is getting a backup drive. I was thinking of getting an external but then reasoned why not just get another internal SATA? I don't need it to be portable. Cheaper and faster too.(I was also surprised to see that these drives have processors on them??)
I use a toaster for that myself. It means you can swap out multiple backup drives, and is a $20 device. So you can put one in a firesafe box for example while you back up to the other.
How does that work? Never mind. I found it. Looks really good. Just what I need.
northman saidIt's been a while since I last did a drive.
Hmm!