Disk wiping

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To wipe an hdd by writing zeros to it:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX iflag=nocache oflag=direct bs=4M

The average speed is about 86 MB/s, so 1 TB disk takes about 3h 15m.

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