Re: Hard Drive eraser recommendation

["Adriel T. Desautels" <ad_lists () netragard com>]

Ansgar, you mean the DoD isn't l33t?  What bout their gibson?! omigawd.

On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:

> On 2009-09-30 Nick Duda wrote:
> > I'm looking for a hard drive erasing solution (hardware) that meets
> > the DOD recommendation for erasing but is also fairly easy for the
> > helpdesk to just hook a drive up to, press a button and walk away
> > until it is complete. Does anyone have any recommendations for one
> > that is good and low cost?
>
> Put the drive into a USB or firewire external drive enclosure of your
> choice, hook it to a linux box, and run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ 
> hdX" on
> it. Ignore all the "DoD recommendation" bullshit. See [1] as to why  
> that
> is.
>
> [1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/408263ql11460147/
>
> Regards
> Ansgar Wiechers
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