Re: [Nolug] Why geeks don't wipe hard drives...

From: Mischa D. Krilov <rossum_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:17:23 -0500
Message-ID: <AANLkTikEADzASaGw6TQWAXcz5HK3nGHzoZW66u3NWFOQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> it takes *forever*!
>
> At 90MB/s, it takes 3 hours to wipe a 1TB drive. :(

That seems quite reasonable to me. I've seen older, sub-100GB drives
take more than 24 hours.

Mischa

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