I am using DBAN to wipe a 1TB Hard drive and so far its at 90.38% ( round 1 of 1 , pass 3 of 3) and its been 37 hours, the remaining time is 4000+ hours blanking at 27000 B/s. the load average is 1.00 1.01 1.05, its also detected 43 error. can anyone tell me why it takes this long?
DBAN taking forever
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- Sep 7, 2013
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The errors are the reason. The drive is faulty which slows down the write process of DBAN very substantially. If you intend to re-use the drive or pass it on, I wouldn't bother. Just take it outside on some concrete, don some safety goggles, then drop it a few times from as high as possible, plus take a hammer to it, then destroy the connectors by levering with a screwdriver. Nobody will ever read it after that.
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