how long should a 2TB drive take to zero byte erase

[munkees]

how long should a 2TB drive take to zero byte erase? it is a WD Element 2TB

 

[Mal]

Standard zero-out instead of a 7-pass or 35-pass? Probably in the range of a couple hours. Could be quicker, but wouldn't expect that.

jW

 

[some-dude]

Took me 3 hours to single pass a 500GB (5400rpm) drive.

 

[42streetsdown]

external USB? i think it'd be limited by the USB bus speed and dependent of the speed of the drive. along time

edit:i did a search for read/write speeds of your drive but came up empty.... sorry

 

[tomllama]

How fast is your disk? At 80 MB/sec it could take about 7 hours to do 2 TB
(! GB = 1024 MB and 1 TB = 1024 GB so 2 TB = 2.1 million MB)