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That depends on your chosen deletion method as well as the speed of your hard disk and processor. As a rule of thumb, bear in mind that simple overwriting (i.e. “Lowest Security”) will take the same amount of time as writing the file to the same partition. Deleting with “Highest Security” will take around 35 times as long.
