Le 24/08/2012 09:53, Invisible a écrit :
> On 21/08/2012 02:15 PM, Invisible wrote:
>> Erasing a 8.6 GB HD:
>>
>> It takes about the same time as erasing a 3 TB HD.
> 
> I take it back. The 8.6 GB drive is /still/ erasing...
> 
> I'm pretty sure that means I just have selected a non-optimal block size
> or something, because there's no way it should be taking this long.


It might have bad blocks, and enters a retry loop... with I/O timeout.

My best erasor: unix "dd bs=32kB if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> "
If you really bother, provide a count= (but it's in block...)

If SMART is available on the drive, check it.

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