How pernicious are External Drive's bloatware?

Cassady

Cassady

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Hello all,

Figured I would try my damnedest to get all the stupid questions off my chest in one week... :p

Not wanting to spend another lifetime waiting for wifi transfers of some of my data - I bought this from IC, for R890 this morning.

It's real small and good-looking, but must die. Seagate has all this Backup software stuff on it. I only want to use this drive as a CCC storage for disk-images of my two internal drives.

Question: If I nuke this with a format and repartition - what are the chances the bloatware will brick it etc? Reading other posts about encryption etc. on externals, nothing would surprise me these days... Surely it will work ok?
 
You're going to want to format it to hfs regardless. Nuke it.
 
Nah,the days of irremovable bloatware are long past
 
so if I start using deleterious more often on this forum I'll be in trouble :(
 
Paul Hjul said:
so if I start using deleterious more often on this forum I'll be in trouble :(
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Stop using big words! Forces me to learn stuff. My brain is quite full at the moment and i'll be forced to eject irrelevant words and phrases like "e-tag" and "Violations Processing Centre". I already had to make room for "Delta Motor Corporation of South Africa Opel Monza 160i GSi Car of the Year 1991"
 
Cassady said:
Hello all,

Figured I would try my damnedest to get all the stupid questions off my chest in one week... :p

Not wanting to spend another lifetime waiting for wifi transfers of some of my data - I bought this from IC, for R890 this morning.

It's real small and good-looking, but must die. Seagate has all this Backup software stuff on it. I only want to use this drive as a CCC storage for disk-images of my two internal drives.

Question: If I nuke this with a format and repartition - what are the chances the bloatware will brick it etc? Reading other posts about encryption etc. on externals, nothing would surprise me these days... Surely it will work ok?
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I've never had a problem with such software. For example I'm using two 1GB LG 2.5 inch SATA USB3 drives for backup purposes. They have some form of Windows backup software which resides in a directory on the drives. I also have two 2GB Toshiba e-basics 2.5 inch drives (USB3) and they also work without problems. No software on them except a user manual.

On my Mac Pro, I use an eSATA2 connected Guardian Maximus 2GB RAID-1 array (with 2x 2GB Hitachi HDDs in them) and a variety of USB2/3 HDDs. Also no problems. Some are HFS and some are NTFS. I can't even remember which is which.

I happen to use NTFS for Mac from Paragon Software which allows me to use both NTFS and HFS+ as well as FAT32/FAT. No issues.

You can simply delete such software. It's not needed to access the drives in OSX or Windows.

Anecdote re speed:

I found you're gonna only get about 100MB/sec transfer to a USB 3 2.5 inch drive from my SSDs. I'm quite disappointed also that a Transcend USB 3 32GB stick advertised as max speed 70MB/sec only does 35MB/sec constant write speed on large files.
 
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KILL IT, KILL IT WITH FIYAH!! I ****ing hate bloatware, really pisses on my battery that the first thing I have to do with any tech stuff is to delete everything and put it back to the way they're SUPPOSED TO SELL IT TO YOU!!

/rant over

No shouldn't be a problem, I do it all the time
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
KILL IT, KILL IT WITH FIYAH!! I ****ing hate bloatware, really pisses on my battery that the first thing I have to do with any tech stuff is to delete everything and put it back to the way they're SUPPOSED TO SELL IT TO YOU!!

/rant over

No shouldn't be a problem, I do it all the time
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Toshiba E-Basics is bloatware free. I picked two of these 2.5 inch 2GB drives up a month ago when they were on special at IC. The Windows bloatware on other makes e.g. Hitachi or LG is otherwise invisible and occupies one directory. It's not a bother under Windows either. Fujitsu and Toshiba tend not to include b/w.
 
Thanks for all the replies. The Bloat be dead. Nuked it. All good, and working as it should! :)
 
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