mac disk utility erase taking long time

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In Disk Utility on your Mac, erase and reformat a storage device to use with a Mac
. the slider to choose how many times to write over the erased data, then click
OK. Secure erase options are available only for some types of storage devices.
6 days ago Use Disk Utility to erase (format) a hard disk, SSD, flash drive, Proceed based
on whether you're erasing your startup disk or some other disk.. or later for the
first time on that disk, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
4 Nov 2013 I'm sure your 3TB disk is a spinning disk, that can effectively only sustain writes of
about My dad's work provides him with a Mac, but recently, they upgraded
everyone's. 1%/hour does seem a little slow, but I would still expect the job to
take two days or so. the Useful for this: DBAN and secure erase.
29 May 2018 Do you take out the hard drive or SSD and smash it? You can learn more about
using Time Machine in our Mac Backup Guide. With an SSD drive, Secure
Erase and Erasing Free Space are not available in Disk Utility.
26 Jun 2019 The Mac's Disk Utility app is used to erase and format hard drives Disk Utility
underwent some changes in the version included with OS X The term "disk"
refers to the drive itself. This erase method can take a long time.
27 May 2008 Apple's Disk Utility programs, as well as other hard disk utilities offer this option.
Some offer 3 or 5-pass erase options, while some, including
9 Apr 2015 Erasing a drive, how FileVault 2 encryption can play into it, and In the olden
days, in the long ago, we ran utility software that often came from third the
Erase Free Space options, which can take a very, very long time even
Simply run the disk utility again to format it with HFS+. then upgrade it to Sierra
or whatever the latest release happens to be by the time you read this from the
App Store. How long does it take to complete a 7-pass erase on a hard disk?
15 Mar 2017 Everyone needs to securely erase data at some point—even on a Mac. the
above happening, but after a while this method starts taking up a lot of space.
technologies, Apple took the option out of Disk Utility for a reason.