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tool to completely fill a drive with random data and ensure it can be entirely correctly read back

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2011-11-16 · latest 2017-03-16

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  1. …exactly that (although not intended for securely erasing a drive, it will have that effect too): https://github.com/rentzsch/stressdrive
    comment by feelix · 2017-03-16 · in How to securely recycle or dispose of your SSD
  2. …operation is fixed, its source simple+readable and offers good built-in progress reporting. [1]: https://github.com/rentzsch/stressdrive
    comment by daxelrod · 2011-11-18 · in Death and Resurrection of an SSD