wiper.exe for SSD Drives - Where can i download it?

lmfy2k · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:53

so i got a crucial 64gb ssd at launch and want to use wiper.exe that everyone is talking about.

ive tried looking but not sure where i can download it from, any links guys?

Thanks!

Mel_P · 22 Oct 2009 at 15:49

More to the point - do you want to use it - I set it going on a (nearly new) crucial 128GB drive 2 hours ago and its only done 5.28% - that makes about 40 hours!!! to complete - CAN I STOP IT?

Help !

Mel P

rick fowler · 22 Oct 2009 at 16:07

Mel_P said:
More to the point - do you want to use it - I set it going on a (nearly new) crucial 128GB drive 2 hours ago and its only done 5.28% - that makes about 40 hours!!! to complete - CAN I STOP IT?

Help !

Mel P

thats strange mines done in minute or so unless im missing something,mines a 64gb crucial,it comes up with a black box and does a count up in percentage

can you post a screen shot please,im interested to see

Mel_P · 22 Oct 2009 at 16:30

Up to 6.25%.

Just joined Crucial forum and posted there - apparently it's because I have 1 x 1TB drives in RAID1 on the intel controller.

Mel

superflyguy · 22 Oct 2009 at 17:32

Oh, are you using it to wipe those as well as the SSD?

Mel_P · 22 Oct 2009 at 17:53

No - wiper only works on SSD drives - it ignored other 3 drives.

superflyguy · 22 Oct 2009 at 18:47

Thats terrible performance.

I'd cancel it, unplug the other drives then run it with just the SSD.

Might need to put it in a USB stick tho.

Ducky Spud · 22 Oct 2009 at 20:09

Ive got a couple of vertex drives and when they were using firmware 1.1 wiper would be done in around 1 min. Now its at firmware 1.4 they are super slow like yours, about 5% after an hour or whatever. Not really ideal at all! They should use garbage collection though, which I think still works in RAID 0. Just log off for half an hour or so, so that the drives are inactive and it does its work and improves their performance