• Desperate-Science883@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    wtf is 0s i/o actually? can you explained it in lay man terms… so we the average joe people can have a better understanding of what you are trying to tell…

    • bizude@alien.topOPB
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      1 year ago

      It’s when you write all zeroes to a drive. Some folks do this to securely wipe a drive.

      • chx_@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Some folks do this to securely wipe a drive.

        Then some smartass controller runs a little RLE on it and then comes the surprise.

      • hanny_chris@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        low level format mechanism then? Do this event relevant to our daily dose usage of Storage???