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Hard Disk will reach 600GB by 2007

Published on February 10, 2004

The standard desktop PC of 2007 will have a hard disk drive with capacity between 500GB and 600GB, according to research firm TrendFocus. Read more

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Sony Pares Back Specs for All-In-One PSX Console

Published on December 08, 2003

Sony Corp said on Friday it had pared back specifications for its all-in-one PSX console, an entertainment system that includes a hard disk drive (HDD) and DVD recorder plus a PlayStation 2 game machine. Read more

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Stalker: Clear Sky--Is Your System Ready?

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07-03-2008 at 09:47:35 PM

Ok, I just received my Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS hard drive today and I'm getting it partitioned off and I did a format on a little 3 GB partition and it's been 15 minutes and it's still on just 25%. Is that normal or is it absolutely terrible cause that's what I'm thinking. I am formating it so I can put Windows in there and I'm using a regular NTFS file system. Someone please help me out cause I really don't wanna wait to format the whole 500 Gigs of this thing X\

EDIT: 5 mins later it's at 26%

EDIT: Another 5 mins it's at a whopping 27% 8-0

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07-03-2008 at 11:35:46 PM

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That sounds excessively slow for a 3GB partition. I would let it finish and see if everything looks normal, but there's definitely something not quite right here.

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07-04-2008 at 03:03:40 AM

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yeah it's been 4 hours and it's only at 86% on the 3 GB partition. I'm getting pretty mad....I'm gonna try to partition and format on a different computer when it's done with what it's doing now.

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