Hard Drive Wiping Certificates

[Charles McColm]

I wonder how many refurbishers are wiping systems and providing
certificates to prove drives have been wiped?

I looked into a few programs. DBAN apparently won't do it, but EBAN,
the Enterprise version does, at a cost of $499. I looked at
ACtive@Killdisk which requires a site license to provide certificates,
this is $1499. Is anyone using something that's open source which
generates certificates that show the drive serial number and
information about the wipe?

Thanks,

C.

[Don Singleton]

Why does DBAN not work. Is it just that it does not generate a certificate?
Could you print up your own certificate?

[Angela Haas]

WITS prints up its own certificate of guarantee and we havent had any of our business or residential clients unhappy with it.
We use Kill disk.


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[Angela Haas]

WITS has three 8 IDE connector boxes which allow us to hook up drives to ghost, can anyone help us figure out how to use this box to do mass qty data wiping too?

Thanks so much

[Bob Townley]

All

My Lab Manager has written a Phython script the parses out the DBAN log files to give the model # and serial number of the hard drives and if the erase was successful.  We erase 4 to 8  drives at one time with  one pass of  DBAN. We would be happy to share this script. My donors will generally accept this along with a letter certifying that we completed the erase.

Bob

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Bob Townley
Program Manager
Community Computer Connection
14200 E. 35th Place Unit 105
Aurora, C0 80011
www.c3-colorado.org
Phone: 303-962-2270 x17
Fax: 303.962.2280

[Charles McColm]

> Why does DBAN not work. Is it just that it does not generate a certificate?
> Could you print up your own certificate?

That might be a possibility. I had a look at the .tar.gz file DBAN
creates and didn't see much in the way of serial numbers, but I only
took a brief look.

We've had donors donate 50+ systems in the past, but most in that
category have done the wiping before. We have an opportunity to take a
larger donation with the caveat that we show a certificate for each
hard drive wiped...

A script would be really helpful. I need to give an answer tomorrow,
so thank you to everyone who replied. I think I'll look at the reports
DBAN generates and see what I can come up with to parse the data.

FWIW if people are interested in what we've done I have a photograph
of our DBAN machine here:

http://www.charlesmccolm.com/content/hard-drive-wiping-machine

At the moment we have 5 IDE bays and 1 SCSI removable bay. We boot
DBAN off a CD. Inside are 2 x IDE 100 PCI controller cards. The
motherboard is a 2GHz server board with 512MB RAM. In order to
simplify things and keep volunteers from looking all over for keys we
broke the "locks" in the always on position so hard drives connected
always appear on when inserted.