I therefore surmise that ' A Long Time' is longer than a short while, but less than 3-4 Hours per TB. The SeaTools manual does mention that the ' Erase Overwrite Full'' will take ' A Long Time'.īut, in another section, few paragraphs later, ' A Very Long Time' is defined as 3-4 Hours per TB. Parted Magic is already 5.3 (and Icecube knows about it ). There is no Easeus Disk Copy version 2.4 (it is 2.3, and has been for a long time). Seagate updated seatools for DOS to 2.21, and also Seagates DiscWizard. Napkin Math says, that's way longer than it should take. Since UBCD 5.02, Miray updated HDClone to 3.9.3, Samsung updated es-tool. Using SeaTools bootable, I started the drive format using the ' Erase Overwrite Full'' ( SeaTools Manual) approximately 22 Hours Ago at the time of this posting.Ĭurrently (22 Hours In), the drives are less than 30% through the format. (which has proven it's stability in previous installations). Since I was using Seagate Drives, I decided to use Seagate's SeaTools ( Link To SeaTools) to perform a low level format of my Seagate ST2000NM0001 2TB drives.īefore Formatting, I decided to remove as many variables as possible, connecting 8 of 12 drives to the motherboard's on board 2008 SAS controller. So, I ran into the exact problem described in this thread from 2014.įollowing along, OP claims to have solved his issue by using Western Digital's tools, and zero filling the drive.

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