• 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.

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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???