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Most drives will complete in under an hour, however, extremely large drives such as 300GB drives will take longer. Secure Erase is much faster than standard triple overwrite algorithms that can take many hours or even days to complete. As a general rule, Secure Erase is usually 8 times faster than triple overwriting.
