Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "David" == David V Corbin <dvcorbin at optonline.net> writes:

 David> Others are just economies of scale. Consider disdk
 David> formatting. If you look at MB/S then today's drives are MUCH
 David> faster.  If yuou look at "how long does it take to format this
 David> new drive", then the answer is about the same.

Why would you format a drive, in the sense of writing all the blocks?
There is no longer any such thing as a "low level format".  So unless
you're desperate to get rid of the manufacturing test pattern, you
might as well do a 30 second "quick format" to initialize the file
system. 

	paul