Technical Proposal on ATA Secure Erase - T13

Nevertheless, Fast Erase is far better than the common situation of no user erase at all.. Five drive erase choices are provided in the UCSD freeware utility: 1) Secure Erase Unit: the ATA internal drive Secure Erase command. The highest level of Secure Erase. Can take 10-60 minutes depending on drive capacity and rpm. ................
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