On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I'm using shred on some 2Tb USB disk drive that I plan to give away. So far it has taken 8 hours to shred 50% of the drive, which implies that it will take about 16 hours to shred the whole drive. I have another 2 drives to go.

Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, other than smashing the drives to bits?

I just checked the numbers and I think you're erasing as fast as you can. That's a large hard drive and given the write speed of a spinning disk, that's the time it will take. Can you not write them all at the same time?
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