[clue] secure erase techniques?

[David L. Willson]

Interesting, potentially relevant, side note:

The marketing guys and business types won the storage-unit naming fight. Megabytes (MB) have a million bytes in them, gigabytes (GB) have a billion. Us tech guys have been relegated to using Mebibytes (MiB, binary megabytes) and Gibibytes (GiB, binary gigabytes).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541

The dd I use (stock Ubuntu LTS) uses these units and abbreviations.

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> think your SATA speed calculation should be 3*1024^3 (kilobits,
> megabits, gigabits).
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