Need to warm disk up before formatting?

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I run XP Pro on a home machine. I have a new SATA hard drive.

Before formatting it, is it advisable to let the new hard drive warm up
by running it for an hour or more in order to eliminate any further
thermal creep?
 
Joe S said:
I run XP Pro on a home machine. I have a new SATA hard drive.

Before formatting it, is it advisable to let the new hard drive warm up
by running it for an hour or more in order to eliminate any further
thermal creep?
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After taking delivery, you should let it warm up to room temperature before
applying power to it! This to allow any moisture from condensation sort
itself out before electricity is added to the mix! No need to let it spin
for a while before you use it.
 
Joe S said:
I run XP Pro on a home machine. I have a new SATA hard drive.
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Before formatting it, is it advisable to let the new hard drive warm
up by running it for an hour or more in order to eliminate any further
thermal creep?
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Nope, not necessary with modern servo drives.

The last time that was a useful approach was decades ago now.
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Joe S said:
I run XP Pro on a home machine. I have a new SATA hard drive.
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Before formatting it, is it advisable to let the new hard drive warm up
by running it for an hour or more in order to eliminate any further
thermal creep?
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No. The disk-heads are aligned to the tracks regardless of
temperature. There is no thermal creep.

Arno
 
I run XP Pro on a home machine. I have a new SATA hard drive.

Before formatting it, is it advisable to let the new hard drive warm up
by running it for an hour or more in order to eliminate any further
thermal creep?
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The drive is already formated. What you have to do is only to write the
data necessary to the file system. That is still called formatting, but
isn't the same as the formating of a floppy disk. Therefore, no warm up
necessary.
 
The drive is already formated. What you have to do is only to write the
data necessary to the file system. That is still called formatting, but
isn't the same as the formating of a floppy disk.
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Therefore,
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Nope, nothing to do with that either.
 
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