Found the drive holding up the raid array. Low and behold, DD erase either hangs or writes very poor like 2meg/sec. If I have a suspect drive or drives in a mirrored OS set, and I don't know which is causing grief but I'm getting lagging writes, I make a best guess on SMART data, yank that out of the array, secure erase, and then erase with DD. It should be doing the full 400-500 meg/sec. If you suspect the drive might be having write issues, I also hit it with the erase with DD erase for a minute or so, and watch the write speed. It will reset every bit on the flash to zeros. Just got the email a few days ago on a new release too.Īs for wiping the SSD, use the secure erase. It is one of the USBs I carry with me at all times. I pay the annual sub, for they are always updating drivers for that one off motherboard or raid card drivers that you need when going to a customer / site, and you need to wipe the meta data off a drive and or clone some odd ball. I've used Parted Magic secure erase for so many years, I can't even count.
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