Re: What should be done with old RAID 5 sets?

[Andy Weisskopf <amw () IASTATE EDU>]

Overwrite them.  Just because you can't reconstruct the RAID doesnt
mean you can't get data off them.

--andy

Clyde Hoadley writes:
> We run a disk shredder program against
> ordinary disk drives before we reuse them
> or dispose of them.
>
> We have some old RAID 5 sets from a Tru64
> system that we need to send to State Surplus.
> What should we do about the those drives first?
>
> I suggested pulling two drives out of each set
> and holding those back for a month and sending
> the rest in.
>
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> Clyde Hoadley, CISSP
> Security & Disaster Recovery Coordinator
> Department of Information Technology
> Metropolitan State College of Denver
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