I doubt it meets DoD standards, but I've used one of these for years on all discarded drives. It consistently removes any partitions, formatting, and scambles the data.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-LARGE-Bulk-Tape-Eraser-44-233A-BOX-MANUAL-/360319177434 Roger Wright ___ "Never make hard what you can make easy." - Fred W. Frailey On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:13 AM, VIPCS <[email protected]> wrote: > But that is not a satisfactory solution for ensuring non-recovery of data. > Jeffrey once met some Air Force forensics experts who claimed to be able to > recover data from hard drive magnetic platters that had been physically > mangled and missing substantial segments of the platters. > > While that action might eliminate casual data recovery, the question is > really: What is the level of data recovery that you want to protect > against? > > Sincerely, > > Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris > VIPCS > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:05 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: wiping drives in a RAID > > One of our sys admins uses a .45 and a .223. I think our method provides > more satisfaction and stress relief. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 6:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: wiping drives in a RAID > > Dban won't get to the metadata parts of the drive, but those don't store > sensitive info, just controller data. > What specific errors are you getting? > > Bottom line, if the data is sensitive, I have two 50 ton presses in the > back > I use:) > jlc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 4:38 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: wiping drives in a RAID > > We have some servers that we are going to survey, and they will go find a > new home. We want to wipe the drives before we send them out. > > Specifics: > > Dell Poweredge 2850s, with RAID 5. > > We have DBAN, but we're getting hardware errors when we try to start it. I > don't know if DBAN would see the drives anyway, as I don't think it would > talk to the RAID controller, to be able to see the drives. > > What do you guys use in this type of scenario? > > Thanks, > > Joe > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
