If multiple, get one of the machines that fixes bad sectors. They can wipe
the whole drive if I remember correctly. I bought a few off ebay years
ago. They work great.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Mischa D. Krilov wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> The point is that it's a pain. Especially if you've got multiple drives.
>
>
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