Comments on: How to erase an old hard drive before giving it away http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/erase-hard-drive/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Alan Osborne http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/erase-hard-drive/#comment-28325 Alan Osborne Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:53:50 +0000 http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/?p=106#comment-28325 An excellent (and free) utility to securely erase a hard drive's content is Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN): http://www.dban.org/about http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/reviews/33207.aspx (Review of DBAN) An excellent (and free) utility to securely erase a hard drive’s content is Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN):

http://www.dban.org/about

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/reviews/33207.aspx (Review of DBAN)

]]> By: Mike Foster http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/erase-hard-drive/#comment-22755 Mike Foster Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:05 +0000 http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/?p=106#comment-22755 I was just contacted by a client that has 300 drives now and will have another 600 drives soon to destroy. They are not interested in ever "giving away" the hard drives and need the data destroyed. For such a large number of drives, a degaussing machine that destroys the information or some kind of press that physically destroys the drive is preferable. Furthermore, the destruction device will need to process the drives quickly or take them in "batches" so the process of destroying the data on 900 drives can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. I was just contacted by a client that has 300 drives now and will have another 600 drives soon to destroy. They are not interested in ever “giving away” the hard drives and need the data destroyed. For such a large number of drives, a degaussing machine that destroys the information or some kind of press that physically destroys the drive is preferable. Furthermore, the destruction device will need to process the drives quickly or take them in “batches” so the process of destroying the data on 900 drives can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time.

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