Time to format a disk based on capacity

Hi,

How can I work out how long a hard drive will take to format, based on the capacity of the drive?

Thanks

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Originally posted by j2k
Hi,

How can I work out how long a hard drive will take to format, based on the capacity of the drive?

Thanks

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You would have to take into account a lot of factors. Make/model of disk, write/read speed, software used (algorithms etc), processor speed of system etc etc

damn, so is there no "average" time, for a, say, 40GB hard disk to format, using standard format c: ??

if so, how is this "average" time calculated (it only has to be approximate of course)

also, say the hard disk has no faults (e.g. bad sectors) and is UDMA 100?