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Why does the Target drive erase speed vary so greatly?

April 26, 2017drive erase greatly speed target

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Why does the Target drive erase speed vary so greatly?

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The Solitaire Forensic searches the suspect drive for blank areas to use as a pattern source to write to the target drive. If the suspect drive does not contain blank sectors, the Solitaire Forensic will then create a pattern in memory to erase the target drive. This is a much slower process, as it requires considerable CPU bandwidth.