A computer term you don't hear anymore?

Boomyal

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Back when I first went PC, (don't worry everyone) that is computerized, circa '92 they always had to 'burn in' the new harddrive. Seems that it took some period of time. You never hear reference to that anymore. Why not and what is different today?
 

BoatBuoy

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Re: A computer term you don't hear anymore?

You're proly talking about a low-level format. It's now pre-done on new drives. On the old MFM and RLL drives, you had to do it yourself.
 

Paul Moir

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Re: A computer term you don't hear anymore?

Back in the old days, early failure of hard drives was very common and some of the better system builders would torture them first to weed out the bad ones. <br />Since quality has improved and prices have dropped, it's really unnecessary now for your typical home system. But it's still requested and done on systems that are expected to operate with a higher degree of reliability. It can take several days (depending on the level of torture) and properly done at higher ambient temperatures.<br />Or it could have been a misnomer like Boatbuoy wrote.
 
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