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How long does it take for Acronis DriveCleanser to Erase a 2TB FAT32 disk attached to a USB Port (U.S. Standard DoD 5220.22-M)

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How long does it take for Acronis DriveCleanser to Erase a 2TB FAT32 disk attached to a USB Port using U.S. Standard DoD 5220.22-M?

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The US DoD Standard 5220.22-M is a 3 pass overwriting scheme. Theoretical rate of each pass would be around 100MB/s. You can do the math. For more on disk cleansing see here:

http://www.jetico.com/web_help/bcwipe_mac/AA_schemes.html