E-Mail 'How-To: Zero Write Any Hard Drive' To A Friend

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Josh Eby

Published: June 30, 2009Posted in: Headlines, How-ToTags: DBAN, Erase, Format, Hard Drive, Hardware, Utilities, Zero-Write

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I work in the K-12 Education field as a Technical Support Specialist / Web Specialist at the St. Joseph County ISD in Southwest Michigan. I also do a lot of freelance web development in my free time which I absolutely love doing. I am also an avid gamer when it comes to the PC or the XBOX 360 and have been known to enjoy a good LAN party.

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1. Michael Alwine

   Posted June 30, 2009 at 11:08 AM

   ok, hotshot. How many zeros would fill a 650GB hard drive?
2. Josh Eby

   Posted June 30, 2009 at 3:21 PM

   650 gigabytes = 5.58345748 × 10^12 bits (Thank you Google Calculator since I didn’t feel like figuring it out myself…lol)

   I can tell you that it will take a long time! I did DoD short on 2 400GB drives and verify last pass and it took about 2 days…lol But it fixed the drive issue I was having so I guess it was worth it…