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Comment by p1mrx

3 months ago

Why rewrite the same 1MB chunk, instead of making new random chunks?

Redundant data at least opens the possibility that the drive could deduplicate.

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edoceo  3 months ago

Cause making new random was taking too much time.

  • throwawaymobule  3 months ago

    Pretty sure most modern computers can generate random data faster than they can write to a disc.

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