[ale] A little math

[scott boss]

If you write something other than /dev/random (or urandom) then it
will go much master.

If you want to wipe the drive with random data, I have a better option
for you...

Sent from my mobile...

On Feb 10, 2010, at 21:57, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I decided to pull the plug on the writing of random data on my 1TB
> drive, as I was getting to impatient, wanting to get this done. As it
> turned out it had written about 251GB worth of data within about
> 15hrs,
> so my original calculation of 8 days and some was way off. Looks more
> like a little under 2.5 days. Hmmm I wonder how long with a 16way
> MoBo?
> Damn the significant other hid the credit card :(
>
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