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Zeroing Out HD..How Long?
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03-08-2009, 08:27 PM
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.
03-08-2009, 08:31 PM
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.
03-08-2009, 08:35 PM
Oh great...thanks GGD!
I guess that 120 gig drive will have to be done tomorrow!
03-08-2009, 08:56 PM
It might be better if I just bought a bag of cement and mixed up some to dump the drives in?
03-08-2009, 09:09 PM
if you are just trying to destroy them, then yeah =)
just drill a hole in them
03-08-2009, 09:15 PM
IronMac wrote:If you are trying to clean the drive so know one can get data off, it is quite useless. 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
03-08-2009, 09:28 PM
What? We're talking about zeroing-out and writing random data to the drive...eight times! That won't do it?
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