Fwiw until i got too busy at work to test and resell hard drives I ran hard drive sentinel on an old XP OS and never had a single problem with a lock up or freeze whether doing surface tests or wiping over around 1500 hard drives total. If the SMART was good and there were no read errors it wiped easy. The rig I built from scrap and the program cost me like $30 or so which I made back within around three 1tb hard drives.
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