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Tim S
 
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Default [OT-ish] HDD formatting "good practice"

Guy King wrote:

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Why they had to make a simple thing hard I don't know,


Because in many cases it will get the customer to **** off and not
bother them again. This makes it cheaper for them.


It wouldn't surprise me, Guy.

My logic would be, well, if I go away, they've saved themselves 20 quid or
whatever. In the meantime I'm looking to buy 2 off 1GB devices, so being
now ****ed of I'm considering Lexar or even Corsair. And all the bad will
from me telling everyone about it.