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D-Ban takes 180 hours for a sata 250 gig?

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2007-10-19
2013-05-21
  • ACOUSTIC5679

    ACOUSTIC5679 - 2007-10-19

    Here is what the sheet says.....

    Load average=2.99 2.97 2.91
    thoughput=2114 kb/s
    PRNG=Mersennetwistercmt1993ar-cok
    method=dod short

    It has been going for 18 hours and its only at 10.86% and only on pass 1.  Is this normal or is there something wrong?  This will take 7 days.  I have used d-ban before on another built computer and it would usually take 3-4 hours on a 200 gig ide drive.

     
    • Darik Horn

      Darik Horn - 2007-10-20

      Try the beta.  Provide hardware information, model and manufacturer, for a better answer.

       
    • girlinajar

      girlinajar - 2007-10-24

      I see that the problem I am having is not just me.  It is taking forever.  How can I exit DBAN and restart with Beta or at least try "Autonuke".  I have an 80 gig laptop Vista based.  Its been "working" for 9 hours and is less than 9% done.  Help.  Extremely frustrating.

       
      • girlinajar

        girlinajar - 2007-10-24

        Can I just turn the laptop off after two runs?  Is there a magic button?

         
    • Loki

      Loki - 2007-12-28

      Hi,

      well...until now, I only used DBAN on "old" systems (< Pentium III) with HD's of ~40GB capacity. Yes, it took
      several hours to get it done and it was frustrating. Maybe I should mention that I used the PRNG-Stream, which I consider not to be the fastest method...?
      The first times I used this tool, I wanted to stop the program too, also looking for "the magic button". Since there was no data on the HD that could be corrupted, I thought...I just turned of my PC. Never had problems on that, nevertheless I would not suggest this... ;-)
      I my case, after 6-8 hours DBAN was finished, so I usually did not have to kill the process that way.
      I can't help you on your speed problem, but I would say that it is really slow!!

       

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