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HDD Low Level Format Tool is a utility for low-level hard disk drive formatting.

Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, SAS, USB, FIREWIRE.
Big drives (LBA-48) are supported.
Supported Manufacturers: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Western Digital, and almost any other not listed here.
The program also supports low-level formatting of FLASH cards (SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash) using a card-reader.

This HDD Low Level Format utility is free for home use. It can erase and Low-Level Format a SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI or SSD hard disk drive. Will also work with any USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures as well as SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash media.

An option to quickly wipe partitions and MBR data is available.

WARNING: After running this low level format tool, the whole disk surface will be erased.
Data restoration is impossible after using this utility!

Free for personal/home use (speed is capped at 180 GB per hour which is 50 MB/s)
Just $3.30 for personal/home use (no speed limit).
$27.00 per seat for commercial or professional use.
Updates are free for life