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I usually zero out the disks a few times to make sure they are nice and clean, never know what crap they put in those things

I usually zero out the disks a few times to make sure they are nice and clean, never know what crap they put in those things

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I first run to verify the size then badblocks to verify everything works. The last pass of badblocks (with the -wvs options) zeroes the drive. Then the drive gets a fresh partition and format.