We've all done it, plugged in a USB drive or went to wipe an old HDD and found the "Quick Format" box in Windows because we didn't want to spend hours waiting for a drive to reformat. There's a reason ...

Back in the day - i.e. a decade or so ago - whenever I got a new hard drive I always, without fail, performed a full format. Then one time, can't remember when or why, I thought, 'Aaah, feck it! Quick ...