Solid-State Drives (SSD)

[targetbsp]

It worked on mine in 64 bit.  Did you remember to start your command prompt with administrative rights?

[Mel_P]

I have downloaded this "tool" to wipe a "not very much used drive" before my win 7 install.

How long is it supposed to take on a 128GB drive?

It has take 2 hours so far and completed 5.6%

I am on Win7 enterprise trial - 64 bit.  The drive shows nearly full (11.9GB free) - don't really understand this!

Help  / advice please.

[targetbsp]

if you;re running your computer in raid mode (even if you have no raid arrays set up) it takes hours.  Specifically on my 64gb drive... 8 hours.

[Tekno]

Yup, raid mode takes a long, long, long time.

If you do it in AHCI or IDE mode, it is much quicker. 4-5 minutes. with 1819, but under 1 minute for 1571 I believe.

[Mel_P]

But can I exit the command window, reboot and exit RAID (I have 2 x 1TB drives in RAID) and then re-run the prog - or do I just have to wait ??

(Head hurts.............).

Mel

[Tekno]

Well, if the SSD raid array is your boot array then you are out of luck for an easy procedure. You'll might be able to use a seperate boot drive with Windows on it so you can revert back to AHCI or IDE to run wiper on each drive separately. Then revert back to your raid mode and boot off the SSD raid array. I don't have a raid so I am not 100% sure what you need to do.

[Mel_P]

SSD is single BOOT disc (or will be)

RAID1 is 2 x 1TB HDDs (not SSDs)

Can I stop wiper part way through please?

????????????????

[mrmoo]

Sure you can, just cancel out. Delete the wiper file on the drive root.

[Mel_P]

Thanks - done - didn't want to ***** it, my Win 7 has just arrived at frot door !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tyrant]

I've been running the Crucial Wiper for about 30 minutes and its only at 1.86%.

128GB M225 1819 with 80GB free space on Windows 7 x64, Q6600, 6GB RAM, Intel ICH10 southbridge with some funky beta drivers, AHCI enabled.

OCZ Wiper only took seconds for this operation. Weird.

Edit: Removed the beta mobo drivers, installed the 1019 drivers, its back to normal wipe speed!