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Many tutorials suggest zero-filling a drive to fully erase it for further use, but I have never seen anyone suggest one-filling a drive for any reason. Is this an arbitrary convention, or is there a reason why zero-filling is better than one-filling?
Is one harder on the device physically than the other? Other than security (for which I understand a random fill is better), are there any other possible considerations?
Some discussion over here....https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10464/why-is-writing-zeros-or-random-data-over-a-hard-drive-multiple-times-better-th
– Moab – 2019-02-08T04:32:16.107Thanks, I did find that but it is a slightly different question and is focused on data security. Regarding that question, I would ask whether multiple writes of all ones are functionally identical to multiple writes of all zeros. – Stonecraft – 2019-02-08T04:41:21.397
1Yeah but there was some useful information on how a magnetic drive stores a 1 or a 0 – Moab – 2019-02-08T13:57:51.467