[vox-tech] Secure Wiping hard drives

[Rod Roark]

DBAN looks like it will do what you want:

http://www.dban.org/

But you can't securely erase a drive without writing to every sector, 
and that will take time.

More challenging is how to securely dispose of a defective drive.  I'd 
use a sledgehammer.

Do a cost analysis and maybe a solution for the "safety requirements" 
will magically appear.  :)

Rod

On 05/11/2012 09:32 AM, Darth Borehd wrote:
> We need a fast way to securely wipe hard drives.
>
> Is there really any way to recover data after doing 1 pass writing 
> zeros to every sector? (This is what we are doing now using the free 
> version of Active Killbits, but it takes over an hour per hard drive.)
>
> If we repartition and reformat Windows NTFS drives as Ext3, is there 
> any way to recover data from them?  (We found this method is faster, 
> but are not sure if it is as secure as the above.)
>
> The company will not pay for a degausser.
>
> Safety requirements prevent us from doing physical destruction of the 
> "sledge-o-matic" variety.
>
> We use a computer recycler, but do not trust them 100% to destroy our 
> data.  We know for a fact that equipment they get from us sit 
> unguarded in a warehouse for months before destruction.
>
> Interested in hearing opinions on this.
>
>
>
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