Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

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2009/9/2 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 02/09/09 21:32, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>>
>> I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean.  It
>> originally had 2 partitions.  I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
>> and then as root ran
>>
>>     shred -vz /dev/sdd
>>
>
> Angle-Grinder or Belt-Sander on the platters.
> Works every time.

Too slow and few opportunities for parallelisation.

Now, a .50 cal - that's a "secure" erase, and it scales to 17 erase
operations in parallel:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/22/video-50-caliber-armor-piercing-round-vs-18-hard-drives/


-- 
Sam

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