speeding up hard drive wipe

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

But once the tracks are overwritten, on a modern drive? It's gone.

That gets us back to the original question:
Many wiping tools were written for floppies or drives holding several megs, perhaps some GB. Works perfectly.
But when dealing with several TB, it might takes too long...

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