12-07-2014, 10:47 PM
Sorry for delay -- had to run test twice. After first run, got some errors and had to force stop of dd process. Realized that I had mistakenly used lowercase "k" in "bs-k". It should have been uppercase "K". Corrected my prior post with that and just ran a second test without errors this time.
My 2GB USB took a little over 8 minutes to zero out. Just from that test, I'd say your 16GB USB will take a little over an hour. Your computer CPU will make a difference too -- it may be slower or faster than mine, so these numbers are just a rough estimate. Just so you have something to go by, the computer I ran this on is running an AMD Phenom II Quad-Core 3.2GHz processor.
My dead USB stick was then able to be reformatted in GParted. (It threw out error messages and couldn't be mounted before.) So, it appears to be working again ... for now at least. So, I'd say give it another shot on yours and just wait until it completes knowing that it will take quite a bit longer than we both initially thought it would.
My 2GB USB took a little over 8 minutes to zero out. Just from that test, I'd say your 16GB USB will take a little over an hour. Your computer CPU will make a difference too -- it may be slower or faster than mine, so these numbers are just a rough estimate. Just so you have something to go by, the computer I ran this on is running an AMD Phenom II Quad-Core 3.2GHz processor.
My dead USB stick was then able to be reformatted in GParted. (It threw out error messages and couldn't be mounted before.) So, it appears to be working again ... for now at least. So, I'd say give it another shot on yours and just wait until it completes knowing that it will take quite a bit longer than we both initially thought it would.
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