There are DoD standards for degaussers, since degaussing is an approved method for wiping drives. However, as you say, the Radio Shack product probably does not meet those standards!
Sincerely, Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris VIPCS _____ From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: wiping drives in a RAID 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-/3 60319177434 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 ~ 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
