On 2017-09-08 20:43, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
On 2017-09-08 15:27, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2017-09-07 16:10 (UTC+0200):
I was told disk tracks are 1MB in size. So use that size or more, better speed.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M status=progress
That changes over time, as density increases so does disk tracks capacity.
1MB is a several year old number.
And the advantage of writting out a full track at a time is it significantly reduces the likelihood of the drive running out of data in the middle of writing a track. If it runs out, it has to wait 10 msecs or so for the platter to spin back around.
The more of those 10 msec delays, the longer the whole wipe takes.
I tend to do 10MB just so I don't have to think about the capacity of a single track. 10MB is plenty big to keep the disks write buffers full, but small enough not to impact the system RAM.
Noted, thanks :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)