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Originally Posted by blueleaf
hello
i've got a little stuck with the whole 'using disk utility to erase the drive' thing...(i know its probably really simple so please forgive me if i'm being somewhat dense about this!) as its telling me its going to take 145 hours to write the zeros to disk and i kind of think thats not quite right...maybe?! (it was 75 hours but i decided to try to start over - ie. i selected the skip button and now its even worse...oh dear)
i have a new WD external hard drive connected by usb (400 gb) if thats of any help and it didn't have anything on it but was grayed out in the destination box....hence the erase bit.
any help much appreciated!
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FWIW, I recently zeroed out a new 160 GB USB Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini in my 2.2 ghz Macbook with 1 gb ram. It took less than 2 hours.
Something sounds wrong. Are you using the USB cable that came with the drive. If for some reason your getting USB 1.1 transfer rates, that's gonna kill your speed.