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I have always been under the impression new hard drives (not SSD's) are not formatted. Low level, yes, but not for ant file system (FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 etc.) It was up to the user to prepare the drive.
I got into a discussion with an "engineer" from a small CE manufacture regarding DVR's and he is/was under the impression new drives were already formatted. I explained how could be since there isn't any way the manufacture would/could know how/where the drive was going to be used.
I did a little searching and came across this article;
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-format-a-new-internal-hard-drive/
and this statement;
"external" thing I know is an external enclosure.
Am I missing something here?? Has something changed in the past five or so years??
I got into a discussion with an "engineer" from a small CE manufacture regarding DVR's and he is/was under the impression new drives were already formatted. I explained how could be since there isn't any way the manufacture would/could know how/where the drive was going to be used.
I did a little searching and came across this article;
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-format-a-new-internal-hard-drive/
and this statement;
"External" hard drives?? The only tMost new external hard drives available in the market are designed to be plug and play. By plug and play, what I mean is that you can just plug in the hard drive and start using it right away. This is because the manufacturers send the disk initialised and ready to work with the most common operating systems.
The internal hard disks available in the market, on the other hand, require to be prepared before use.
"external" thing I know is an external enclosure.
Am I missing something here?? Has something changed in the past five or so years??