Wiping Disks With DBAN

Written By
JK
Juliet Kemp
Dec 24, 2008

“Be warned: A full standard disk wipe, especially on an old or
slow machine, can take a long time (three to four hours is quoted
as standard, but it can be much more than that on older machines).
I usually leave it running overnight.”

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Juliet Kemp

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