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Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - IronMac - 03-08-2009
Hi all,
Am zeroing out a 60-gig drive (8-pass with Panther) and I was just wondering how long will this take? It says that it's writing random data to the drive but the progress bar has barely budged!
Thanks.
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - marksomebodyelse - 03-08-2009
Hours
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - GGD - 03-08-2009
A little back of the envelope math.
Let's assume that it can write about 30MB/sec. So, 60,000MB/30MB = 2000 seconds per pass, 8 passes = 16,000 seconds.
16,000/60 = 266.66 minutes
266.66/60 = 4.44 hours. Use that as a ballpark estimate.
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - IronMac - 03-08-2009
Oh great...thanks GGD!
I guess that 120 gig drive will have to be done tomorrow!
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - jdc - 03-08-2009
seems like a colossal waste of time on such small drives?
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - IronMac - 03-08-2009
It might be better if I just bought a bag of cement and mixed up some to dump the drives in?
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - jdc - 03-08-2009
if you are just trying to destroy them, then yeah =)
just drill a hole in them
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - BigGuynRusty - 03-08-2009
IronMac wrote:If you are trying to clean the drive so know one can get data off, it is quite useless.
Hi all,
Am zeroing out a 60-gig drive (8-pass with Panther) and I was just wondering how long will this take? It says that it's writing random data to the drive but the progress bar has barely budged!
Thanks.
Zeroing will not prevent that, off the top of my head I know five techs that can read data off that HDD no matter how much you zero it.
Very little equipment needed, regular PC, and some software.
BGnR
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - IronMac - 03-08-2009
What? We're talking about zeroing-out and writing random data to the drive...eight times! That won't do it?
Re: Zeroing Out HD..How Long? - Forrest - 03-08-2009
One word - Thermite Screensavers - Thermite destroys hard drive