

Sometimes the interface type also has effect on wiping speed. It depends on your hard drive capacity greatly. It overwrites all addressable locations on your hard drive with binary zeroes, binary ones, and a random bit pattern from the first pass to the third pass.ĭoD 5220.22-M ECE, the extended version of DoD 5220.22-M, is a 7-pass method.

Learn more about DoD disk wipe from the following FAQs:ĭoD standard is a 3-pass wiping method. It specifies a process of overwriting hard disk drives (HDDs) with patterns of ones and zeros.

