PartialVolume

Yes, that's correct.

>Throughput of total 500mb/s and its divided among 8 drives showing around 60-70mb/s per drive Thanks, if you are doing a wipe that generates a stream such as DoD short,...

One other thing which may be more relevant. You may be hitting the maximum limit of 600-700MB/s (6 gigabits per seconds) of your SATA controller. Assuming my numbers are correct....

This sounds like a Windows 10 issue rather than shredos. [windows-10-not-detecting-usb](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.diskpart.com/windows-10/windows-10-not-detecting-usb.amp.html)

@Firminator I just found this option buried away in the kernel setup, disabled in my case. I think I'll enable this with the new 5.13 kernel (upgraded from 5.6) and...

Thanks for the effort you have spent on this issue, however, you don't need to waste your time looking for source code for wipe algorithms, the required method or procedure...

Secure erase is next on the list. :-)

>Secure Erase sounds good, is it proprietary software or is it open source? I think you misunderstand, when people talk about 'secure erase' they are talking about a method of...

@pogue I read that study some time ago. I'm not sure what you mean by 'it only does a one pass'. Their study shows that no single method can necessarily...

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/equation-hdd-malware/7623/ It's probably quite rare ... until it isn't.