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Old 05-04-2009
Disk Format Question

Wondering if anyone could tell about how long it will take to perform 3 passes on a 72 GB disk? I have a Sun V240 and will have to format all 4. Thanks.
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Old 05-04-2009
I'm guessing your purpose is to bleach the drive ... I've recently did the same on 18Gb disks but didn't timed it. Was completed the next morning. when I did the same on a san, over 1Tb it took more than the W-E ...
There are other way to blank a disk , using dd and /dev/random as input is one ...

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