Regarding WD My Passport Essential 500GB (USB 3.0)
Should I risk using “enable write caching on the disk” . I know that if you do you need to use “Safely Remove Hardare” to stop the device (I use that anyway, just in case). It’s the first time using the drive and I`m running “CheckDisk” to make sure the drive is okay. It’s been close to an hour and a half now that it’s been running, and is around 60 percent. Will optimizing the drive cut the time in half?.
I forgot to mention that even though I have the “My Passport Essential” USB 3.0 drive and cable, I’m only using USB 2.0 (High-Speed) and not USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed). Because I don’t have a USB 3.0 (SS) adapter card in my system.
I’m just worried about a power failure damaging the drive. I’m using the default format for the drive (NTFS). I have Windows XP Home, so I’m using NTFS. Doesn’t NTFS protect your data better in such events, unlike FAT or FAT32?.
It took a little over 2 and a half hours to complete the disk check using “optimize for quick removal”. Anyway, I didn’t change it to “optimize for performance”. I’ll just change it for when I want to use “CheckDisk”, hopefully it speeds it up. I have all my data backed up now. The HD is fast and reallty quite, I couldn’t hear it.
Actually I don’t defrag or run check disk that often. All I’m really doing is adding new data. if I was constantly using the data like movies or deleting things it would be different. The last time I defragged my 2t it took less than 5 min. Check disk took about 15 It’s close to 2/3 full of images from Acronis.
Wow, 15 minutes, that’s a big difference!. I did a thorough check though. I had both check boxes selected - “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”. I didn’t get any report at the end. I wanted to make sure that the HD was fine before writing to it. I pray my drive doesn’t die in a year like other’s have. :mansad:
I didn’t defrag the hard drive, I didn’t use it enough to run that. The only thing that was on it was what comes with it - SmartWare and drivers.
On Windows 7 and Vista you have to go into the event log to find the results. You’ll have to do a search I can never remember it’s not logical anyway. One is in windows the other I think is applications I think one is called winlogon. Who ever came up with the idea should be slapped up the side of the head a few times. What was wrong with leaving the popup to see when it was done? I guess that was to simple for the over educated developers!
I took a look and you were correct. Here’s the Chkdsk description…
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Chkdsk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26180
Date: 20/12/2010
Time: 12:38:50 PM
User: N/A
Computer: I Removed info for this
Description:
Checking file system on F:
Volume label is My Passport.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal…
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)…
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)…
Free space verification is complete.
The upcase file content is incorrect.
Correcting errors in the uppercase file.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
488352767 KB total disk space.
477900 KB in 1348 files.
720 KB in 73 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
82387 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
487791760 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
122088191 total allocation units on disk.
121947940 allocation units available on disk.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
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0008: df 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 ß…
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
0018: 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
0020: d0 12 13 00 00 00 00 00 Ð…
0028: 0c 1d e0 00 00 00 00 00 …à…
0030: 92 fe 1e 00 00 00 00 00 ’þ…
0038: fa fd d8 10 00 00 00 00 úýØ…
0040: 6c 5d 36 27 15 00 00 00 l]6’…
0048: 10 1b 82 3d 15 00 00 00 …‚=…
0050: 99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 ™6…
