Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-28 Thread Bob
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at 4

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: > > > >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at > > >>4MB/s it'll take a lng time to

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: > >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at > >>4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB > >>job? > >> > >>What other options ar

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Bob
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: if you type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s whereas dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null coun

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:19:59PM +0800, Bob wrote: > if you type > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s > > whereas > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in >

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: > if you type > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s > > whereas > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10

Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-24 Thread Bob
if you type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s whereas dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0932449 seconds, 5