[CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Wed May 9 15:52:53 UTC 2018
On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or
> DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them
> deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them
> yet, but it's surely coming, so we might as well figure it out now.
Does anyone use hdparm's enhanced security erase feature for wiping working
drives?
Sounds more secure than DBAN/shred, and potentially faster too. It's not
something I've used.
jh
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