Hey, any of that hardware still around? I find I need some storage space. Also, having a little server hardware around here wouldn’t hurt.
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2025, at 1:13 PM, Primary Paws via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Arun,
Oh, yes! I specifically warned him that he would need to
implement some sort of nuking of the hard drives, and not just try
to "erase" or "reformat" them before handing them off to some
"junk dealer!!"
He's got two older Dell servers running Windows Server 2012 R2 on
SCSI drives; one of them has a 7TB RAID array. I told him it was
gonna take a bit!
Hey, and thanks for the heads up on some live boot solutions!
Tim (Paws Prime)
On 8/15/25 12:41 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
Dang
it! I spent almost a full day at a client's office and was
so
pooped I totally spaced out about the PLUG meeting!
This particular client has semi-retired and is closing his
office. He
has a bunch of hardware that he needs to get rid of, and I
was there
yesterday starting the process of backing up all of his
information and
discussing what he should keep and what he should get rid
of. I'll be
headed over there next Tuesday, August 19th, to wrap up the
backups and
test some processes he will use when working from home on
his laptop. If
there is anybody interested in what hardware he wants to
give away, I'll
do a quick inventory and post it to the PLUG discussion
list.
I am
sure you have this in your checklist.
Nonetheless,
make sure you wipe all the storage media
(not just the files) using a live boot OS like ' dban'
or ' ShredOS (nwipe)' This
can be time consuming; depending on how many physical
storage devices your client has, make enough bootable USB
sticks to run the process in parallel.
While
dd, shred, wipe are OK to write random data on disks/files
and are available in all Linux distros, I personally prefer
to use a Live OS.
HTH
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