Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

[yudi v <yudi.tux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 19:48 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> Hi

> From what  I understand, the first command above will write data in
> 512 byte blocks, the second one in 1MB blocks, and the third in 4096
> byte blocks. Right?

Yep.
The 1M should also yield considerably better performance. (Though the
random number generator may cap the performance in this case).

- Gilboa

-

Sorry, could you please elaborate a bit more on how a higher size block results in better performance.

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Kind regards,
Yudi

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