advice on wipe/disposal of old hard drives
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Dave Campbell
Sep 9, 2016, 6:54:43 PM9/9/16
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a big part of a home office cleanup project is to dispose of some old computer equipment including lots of drives pulled when upgrading, several WD 'MyBook'-style drives, a small handful of smaller USB-connected 2.5" drives, and a few that are inside those network-accessible enclosures (think Fantom-style).
i'm pretty sure i want to erase/wipe all the data on each drive indiscriminately, and then i don't really care what the next steps are - the drives have negative value to me given they take up real space in my way-too crowded home office.
i'm envisioning some stripped down recent-ish computer (got some) that has an existing ATA/IDE/SATA interface and some magic boot-CD with disk-wiping software.
- connect drive
- boot on CD
- recognize drive
- wipe drive
- rinse and repeat
if that seems reasonable, what disk-wipe tool is on that boot CD?
i've been monkeying around with UBCD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), but i'm not sure those HDD tools on the free version are adequate. i am certainly willing to spend up to maybe $40 on the right utility software.
advice solicited!
once these drives are wiped, i'm very willing to donate them to any worthy party, including the boneyard. the inventory would be non-trivial, but nothing bigger than 500 GB (ala 2008).
Divinity Rose
Sep 9, 2016, 7:14:45 PM9/9/16
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I don't have advice there, but our ecycle pick up company degausses and then destroys hard drives
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Joe
Sep 9, 2016, 10:17:14 PM9/9/16
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Dban. It's free. Boots from a CD.
Have not used it for a while. Don't know what it's current state is.
Joe
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From: Dave Campbell <davecc...@gmail.com>
Date: 9/9/16 6:54 PM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: {LVL1} advice on wipe/disposal of old hard drives
a big part of a home office cleanup project is to dispose of some old computer equipment including lots of drives pulled when upgrading, several WD 'MyBook'-style drives, a small handful of smaller USB-connected 2.5" drives, and a few that are inside those network-accessible enclosures (think Fantom-style).
-- i'm pretty sure i want to erase/wipe all the data on each drive indiscriminately, and then i don't really care what the next steps are - the drives have negative value to me given they take up real space in my way-too crowded home office.
i'm envisioning some stripped down recent-ish computer (got some) that has an existing ATA/IDE/SATA interface and some magic boot-CD with disk-wiping software.
- connect drive
- boot on CD
- recognize drive
- wipe drive
- rinse and repeat
if that seems reasonable, what disk-wipe tool is on that boot CD?
i've been monkeying around with UBCD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), but i'm not sure those HDD tools on the free version are adequate. i am certainly willing to spend up to maybe $40 on the right utility software.
advice solicited!
once these drives are wiped, i'm very willing to donate them to any worthy party, including the boneyard. the inventory would be non-trivial, but nothing bigger than 500 GB (ala 2008).
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Adam Simonyi
Sep 9, 2016, 10:56:38 PM9/9/16
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Use dban at our office all the time. Still maintained well.
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