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I am going to do a full reinstall of everything on every disk in my PC and i wanted to know if zeroing my drives would help their performance. BTW I'm not doing it to my SSd I know better.

 

Hey there @Kilobytez95,
 
Writing zeros to a drive only wipes it clean and physically deletes any info on that drive, making it nearly unrecoverable. 
I should speed it up just a bit if it is heavily fragmented and you reinstall your programs. I will get rid of any unnecessary info and errors and will work pretty much as a new drive, but you shouldn't see any major speed improvements. 
Do have in mind that you won't be able to recover your data after this (it is almost impossible even with a data recovery company if you do a full zero writing) so make sure you have your data backed up.
 
Hope this helps,
 
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I am going to do a full reinstall of everything on every disk in my PC and i wanted to know if zeroing my drives would help their performance. BTW I'm not doing it to my SSd I know better.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmoG7Jn3QQ

Play this song and it will ZERO your hard drive.  It will be awesome.

Oh ... and it won't do anything for the performance of your hard drive.  Sorry.

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I am going to do a full reinstall of everything on every disk in my PC and i wanted to know if zeroing my drives would help their performance. BTW I'm not doing it to my SSd I know better.

 

Hey there @Kilobytez95,
 
Writing zeros to a drive only wipes it clean and physically deletes any info on that drive, making it nearly unrecoverable. 
I should speed it up just a bit if it is heavily fragmented and you reinstall your programs. I will get rid of any unnecessary info and errors and will work pretty much as a new drive, but you shouldn't see any major speed improvements. 
Do have in mind that you won't be able to recover your data after this (it is almost impossible even with a data recovery company if you do a full zero writing) so make sure you have your data backed up.
 
Hope this helps,
 
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