SilverTip257 wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:11 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote:
Paul Heinlein heinlein@madboa.com wrote:
I've never seen the need for a seven-pass randomization. If pressed, I'd probably agree that a one-pass zeroing is good enough for just about any situation. Asset retirement isn't a time-sensitive task, however, so I always use a three-pass randomization before it heads out the door.
You all realize that dban only offers 3 passes, unless you pay for it,
That's only if you just use the "autonuke" option. Press F[234] to check out the other boot options.
right? DBAN is easy, that's why I recommended it.
Um, no. It offers DoD 5220.22-M, which it *says* is seven passes, and
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seen that it is. And we normally use a disk until a) it dies, or b) the server it's in dies, and then reuse, or, more likely, sits around until we consider it too small.... On top of which, I *do* need to guarantee
that
it's clean, as I noted originally. I have *zero* intention of winding up in a news story about someone buying an old surplussed server, and finding all *sorts* of interesting data on the h/d in it.
At a former place of employment we would simply not leave hard drives in servers or desktops that were intended to be recycled or junked. The hard drives got disposed of separately (in this case crushed with a hydraulic wedge).
Hah! When we have one that's failed, it gets deGaussed here. (Except for old, 1.5x height SCSI drives, for which they "don't have a frame". Then we unscrew the thing, and disassemble, and have cool magnets, and pretty disks (which we can bend, or hit with a hammer).
mark