Disk Formatting As Fast As Possible

What benefits does formatting provide other than preparing a disk for use?

[coldsoup]

NTFS FAT32 and exFAT as fast as possible?

[TheMatthewDMerrill]

Just put it in the microwave to format as fast as possible

[alexthe]

As I tell my clients formatting is like taking an eraser and erasing, and writing over that previous mark. Eventually it starts to slow down with too much writing on top of that and eventually you get a fun pop up called disk check :)

[megazero]

Is it just me or is there some kind of buzzing noise throughout the whole video?

[motokoko]

you guys throw so much shade on this channel

[niri]

last time i came this early fine bros still had 15 million subscribers

[spacecoder-kf]

great video, i actually like to reformat my entire system every 6 months keeps everything running fresh and wipes whatever viruses i may have gotten along the way.

[randomgeocacher]

Minor addition: Formatting doesn't kill the MBR (Master Boot Record) which also contain code and could contain malware. I am not very familiar with the newer GPT tables replacing MBR, maybe (or maybe not) they don't contain code like MBR does.

[gercho]

Great video Luke! I think you should also cover the difference between format and quick format ;)

[PlymouthJoseph]

Mechanical Hard Drives: As Fast As Possible!
SCSI: As Fast As Possible!
LinusMediaGroup: As Fast As Possible!
Television Types: As Fast As Possible! (OLED/DLED/LCD/Plasma/Fat TVs Etc.)
Apple Inc: As Fast As Possible!
360° Video: As Fast As Possible! (While shooting with a 360° camera) 
Disk Formatting: As Fast As Possible!
There is 7 I would LOVE to see! I've also posted these on the last 3 As Fast As Possible videos.

[DDuMas]

In terms of privacy, it may be more useful to use full disk encryption from the start. That way, later on, if you ever want to format the drive or throw it away, a simple disk format will probably suffice. And if the drive breaks, you might not have to worry too much about having to smash it or whatever.

[mell]

I made a low level format to my HDD and installed the system again. It got an speed increase arround 25% (like stock), it worked perfect. Pipeline HD before formating: 40mb/s After formating: 50-53 mb/s.

[fabricionicoletti]

Luke always makes me dial down the volume on my yt.

[TheLujka]

The last win. OS that did formatting was XP.(as far as i know).
As you said it only erase file location table. No formatting...
Reason?
The drives become to big, it takes couple of days to format.

Love the show, and I recomend you all the time :)

[TetraSky]

I push that red button all the time to save time. Removing viruses/malware from a highly infected PC can take HOURS, formatting these days take at most 30 minutes + 1 hour or so to reinstall everything.

[quimblyjones]

Nice Linus imitation at the end there mate.
Almost had me fooled!

[timothystockman]

In fact, formatting is somewhat of a misnomer, which these days can mean anything from partitioning to making an empty file system. However, originally formatting meant taking a blank, degaussed medium, such as a newly manufactured floppy disk, and writing the track and sector structure onto the medium. This involved a special operation called "track write". When a track write was initiated, the disk controller would wait for the start-of-track hole to go under the drive's track sensor, then the formatting program would put the drive head into write mode and write the data patterns for a blank track. A track would consist of a certain number of sectors. Each sector would have a header area, into which the track number and sector number would be written so the disk controller could later be sure it was accessing the proper sector, followed by an IRG (inter-record gap), the the data part of the sector, followed by another IRG. The sector headers were written only during formatting, and during normal use only the data part was overwritten. The purpose of the IRG is obvious to anyone who has ever used a cassette or reel-to-reel tape machine. Whenever you press record, the recorder makes a small "thump" on the tape when it turns on the write current. The IRG between the sector header and sector data is the space where the drive can turn on the write current and make the thump without corrupting any data. The controller writes a sync pattern at the start of the data, which allows the controller to achieve bit synchronization before reading the sector data. The IRG at the end of the sector is a space where the controller can turn off the write current (which makes another thump), as well as allowing some slop to account for slight speed differences between drives. That is, when the data part of the sector is later written by a different drive at rotating at a slightly faster speed, the sector will physically be a little longer. The IRG ensures that the write current is turned off and its thump happens so the sector header for the next sector does not get corrupted. A freshly formatted disk is the only time one has continuous, uninterrupted, clean writes of entire tracks on the disk. As the disk is used, you end up with tracks with a bunch of "thumps" where the write current was turned on and off as the data part of the sector was re-written. The disk controller is pretty cool, because it has to look for the sync pattern at the beginning of the headers and data, possibly resynchronizing twice each sector as it reads the track.

Anyway, since the term "formatting" has been appropriated to mean many things, what I'm describing is often now called "low-level formatting". All floppy drives have the capability of taking a degaussed disk and using the track write operation to re-write the sector headers and blank data parts, although floppy disks often would come pre-formatted. Very early hard drives came from the factory with degaussed platters, and needed to be formatted by the computer before use. However, at some point manufactures started shipping hard drives pre-formatted. I can't remember the last time I received a hard drive with degaussed platters...

[TheNiteNinja]

Love the bloatware exampled computer. There is a scanner/printer card and a dial up modem.

[Skurbyq]

There is nothing better than listening to buzzing sounds in the background

[tchitchouan]

instructions not clear enough
got my disk stuck in a toaster