That tool very likely does NOT really do a real low-level format. It certainly does NOT issue the SECURITY ERASE command, because if it did, the tool would not have any control over how quickly or slowly it runs.
Can you elaborate on that a bit? I don't fully understand what Security Erase does. I thought the low level format wrote zeroes to every bit on the hard drive.
So, are you saying that this tool will not remap the bad sectors? I thought the disk firmware did that.
The upgrade just removes the throttling put on to the free version of the tool (max speed of the free version is 50MB/sec) as an incentive to purchase the reasonably priced ($3.30) upgrade.
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