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Could someone give us a idea how long a check disk on 4 Tigs would take at 7400 rpm.
Does a good CPU/RAM influence checkdisk speed? I think it should.
Still, even if it's at best an eyeballed estimate for other hardware, I'd like to know how it goes as well.
I also wonder if running a hard drive constantly for that long would cause a heat problem. In normal use a hard drive is accessed as needed.
A spinner drive will spin 24/7 unless the power options are set to turn it off after a period or the PC is powered off. In my own experience my HDDs never rose above 40C which is good, 50C is max for most.
Thanks bobafetthotmail, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Yeah, Hitachi has their Drive Fitness Test but their test can only be run during boot.
I have the Hitachi 7K4000, it gets pretty hot without active cooling, I used a thermometer to measure the external temperature when I was transferring a TB over and temps rose to around ~41C. Under active cooling temps never went above 32C.
I recorded the time when I started the full format to the time it ended and it came out to be 11hrs 17mins, I think that will give you a rough estimate on how long chkdsk will take to finish on a 4TB drive.
Does chkdsk run slower or faster than a full format?