Hard drive erasing equipment and software

wolverine_dcp

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Hi guys please can anyone recommend enterprise equipment I can purchase to erase hard drives

1. Needs to do multiple disks at once
2. must be able to do laptop and pc drives
3. Drives must still be usable after been erased, so degauss is not an option.:erm:

thanks


Found this software but the supplier doesn't reply to mails or calls. The idea is to use similar software

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stricken

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with linux you can easily zero the drive - e.g. dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb

thus a bunch of external USB SATA docks + a shell script = voila.
 

Aghori

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D-ban the lot of 'em with a single pass wipe. Not sure if the free version supports this though.
 

SuperGee

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You can try Active Killdisk. http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm

I think we paid $99 for the corporate package back in 2015. It's capable of erasing multiple disks (any) at once and is usable thereafter. It can run within Windows or you can create a bootable USB drive with the software. There are many different formatting options but be warned, some of those formats can take days to complete. It just depends on how many format passes you choose to do.
 

Blade_IV

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R-Tools R-Wipe and Clean is one I have used which seemed to do the trick drive was useable afterwards not sure about multple drives simultaneously though haven't seen that option!
 

Compton_effect

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The only way if you don't want the info from the HDD's to be recovered. No matter what software you use. If it's not that important;

Linux box -> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=4096

And I wasn't joking. It is really the NSA's approved method of completely ensuring the hard drive contents is destroyed.
 

sajunky

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And I wasn't joking. It is really the NSA's approved method of completely ensuring the hard drive contents is destroyed.
One of the methods.

Many hard drive utilities will do. Hdat2, MHDD, Victoria, but not supporting multiple drives. Simple Linux commands (posted above) running in background or as a separate processes will erase multiple drives a time.
 
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