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How long to do a zero fill
As discussed in a couple of recent threads my daughter's hdd has gone bad. I'm waiting on a new hdd from WD (RMA replacement) and I thought I'd do a zero fill while waiting for it to arrive before returning the defective deive. My question is how long might expect this to take? I'm using her computer (description below) for this operation using the zero fill utility in my UBCD cd. The operation has been running 52 hours and the program says it is 26% complete. At this rate it should be about 8 days to finish. Does this sound reasonable? I know 640GB hdd is a lot to fill (I asked for a double pass for security reasons) but I'd like someone to assure me that something hasn't gone wrong with this operation. Can someone answer this?
System components:
MOBO: ASUS P8H67-M LE Rev 3.0 LGA1155
CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1 GHz
HDD: WD caviar black WD6401AALS
RAM: Corsair XMS3 4 GB (two 2GB sticks)
Optical: ASUS Black 24X
Video: onboard video
PSU: Antec EarthWatts EA-500D (500W ATX 12V
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit
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