Out of interest....

suarve

suarve

suarve

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Hi,

Have never had to use a mac before today, so excuse my ignorance. My boss me to install a brand new HD into his mac pro, to use as a storage drive. Pulled out the tray holder and slotted it back in.

When I booted the mac, the disk needed formatting so I did what I'd do in a windows based pc - format/partition it. Only thing similar to this in a mac i could find was an 'Erase' tab, that allowed me to format the drive and choose a filesystem. When I clicked this my colleage said how does it take to format. Basinng this ona windows pc and the fact it was a 640GB drive, I said 20 mins max. However, about a minute later it had finished!

I could read and write to drive and even restarted the mac to check.

Is this normal, or have I missed something huge (boss isn't back till tuesday, so I can fix any erros before then :)

Thanks
 
Yup the drive will be fine. Similar option on Windows would be 'Quick Format' which will do the exact same thing. Whereas a full format would probably take 20 minutes.
 
Yeah's pretty normal, just simple erase and format doesn't take too long.

There are differing formatting options that take more time, but as it is a new drive they are not necessary.

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As Will has said there are differing options.

The one you are used to with windows is the "Zero Out Data". I usually find it good practice to use this even with a new drive just to make sure!
 
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