[ale] A little math

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 11:35:38 EST 2010


Okay I've got a dumb question for you math types. How long should it 
take to fill a 1TB hdd with random data using
"dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd"? I've done some more searching and found 
some numbers and if I figured them right I'm looking at about 8 days. Is 
this accurate?


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