Hello Tom, Happy New Year! After 30 years of practicing medicine, I had over 15 HDDs, when I FINALLY shut down the practice, that needed to be wiped. I used exactly what you just talked about to do it and it worked GREAT! I booted into ShredOS, it took about 3.5 hours per disk and I had a DoD compliant blank disk which I can now take into the hardware lab at the college and UNDER MY SUPERVISION, use for research purposes so I do not completely waste them. GREAT job, as usual.
Some of the standalone system maintenance distros like partedmagic etc have secure erase apps for ssd/nvme that are manufacturer agnostic, which if I understand it correctly, just overwrite the built in encryption chip key, thus rendering contents unreadable.
I put the drive in a Windows machine and do a slow wipe, before selling the PC. If its garbage I take the drive apart and hammer the platter, take the board out and recycle separately.
I used to have a really boring, unchallenging job and no one really even knew what I did, but I was the only one that knew how to do it ... but anyway, sometimes to look like I was busy I'd start a disk wipe or a memtest, this was back when disk wipes took hours, it looked like something was happening even though it really wasn't, oh, and spinrite too, because that took forever, lol.
Easy solution that we already have... DBAN (Darin's Boot And Nuke). Why is this one so good at erasing with a zero chance of recovery? Well it basically uses commands in the ATA command set for secure erasing, where the drive is set up for secure erasure, which includes ALL sectors, even bad relocated and spares, leaving zero traces. If you are extra paranoid it supports several passes too, and any chance of recovering any data from that on a modern harddrive or SSD is zero.
doing this on a very old WD-wm5000aaks 500 gig drive. as an exercise . at 85% pass 3 of 3 on verifying at 28 mb/s . 21 hours so far with 41 hours to go. There is a case use for it i suppose if the next user is going to use the same drive ; but most will put an SSD on a new system. If its not to be used again i would go for the BBQ method , hehe.
I did this with a whole tray of drives on a parking lot with side walk 30x30cm tiles. I had permission to do this, but the tiles did not like the treatment,. It turned out that smashing the platters with a claw hammer ( and ample personal protection! ) was not exactly good for the integrity of the tiles below that mayhem. I smashed two of them in the process of physically destroying 30 or so hard drives. An industrial shredder would have done the job even better, but our department did not have the money to go for that more professional method, The head of the hammer used for this was also worse for wear after this.
@@LarixusSnydes I use my concrete garage floor and a piece of wood under the drives but a whole tray? No, I might have done this to a total of three drives. On tiles? Not a good idea at all. Hope the cost to replace the damaged flooring was less than the cost of renting an industrial shredder.
@@edhuismanster Thank you for the concern. Yes, the costs of replacing the tile was considerably less than the industrial shredder. Besides those tiles were already due for replacement; lots of chipped corners and general wear. People complained about almost tripping over them. So in a way my action expedited the replacement.
Hello Tom, Happy New Year! After 30 years of practicing medicine, I had over 15 HDDs, when I FINALLY shut down the practice, that needed to be wiped. I used exactly what you just talked about to do it and it worked GREAT! I booted into ShredOS, it took about 3.5 hours per disk and I had a DoD compliant blank disk which I can now take into the hardware lab at the college and UNDER MY SUPERVISION, use for research purposes so I do not completely waste them. GREAT job, as usual.
303 Bolt Action Rifle was a fun way, Yes I know the NSA has means to extract data from drives with bullet holes in them.
Some of the standalone system maintenance distros like partedmagic etc have secure erase apps for ssd/nvme that are manufacturer agnostic, which if I understand it correctly, just overwrite the built in encryption chip key, thus rendering contents unreadable.
I put the drive in a Windows machine and do a slow wipe, before selling the PC. If its garbage I take the drive apart and hammer the platter, take the board out and recycle separately.
I used to have a really boring, unchallenging job and no one really even knew what I did, but I was the only one that knew how to do it ... but anyway, sometimes to look like I was busy I'd start a disk wipe or a memtest, this was back when disk wipes took hours, it looked like something was happening even though it really wasn't, oh, and spinrite too, because that took forever, lol.
An OS made for deleting files and data securely and properly? That’s a pretty neat concept!
My approach has been to take it apart and make a couple speedholes thru the chips and plates with a drill.
Easy solution that we already have... DBAN (Darin's Boot And Nuke).
Why is this one so good at erasing with a zero chance of recovery?
Well it basically uses commands in the ATA command set for secure erasing, where the drive is set up for secure erasure, which includes ALL sectors, even bad relocated and spares, leaving zero traces.
If you are extra paranoid it supports several passes too, and any chance of recovering any data from that on a modern harddrive or SSD is zero.
doing this on a very old WD-wm5000aaks 500 gig drive. as an exercise . at 85% pass 3 of 3 on verifying at 28 mb/s . 21 hours so far with 41 hours to go. There is a case use for it i suppose if the next user is going to use the same drive ; but most will put an SSD on a new system. If its not to be used again i would go for the BBQ method , hehe.
This reminds me of DBan. I'll add this to my Ventoy USB drive.
Easy answer. Subject to enough heat to create a molten puddle. Otherwise, the sneaky can read it.
I just clench my ass cheeks when I wipe my data. Does make phone a little smelly though...
Neat, going on my Ventoy.
for me if its got to be clean i do a 3/7/3 takes time but usually no recovery.. also known as DoD 5220.22-M standard
Looks like DBAN which I isn't a bad thing since DBAN hasn't been updated in forever. Guess I'll be adding this to ventoy.
Thanks haven’t lol’d that hard in a while.
Any drive I no longer want or need gets the hammer. Literally.
I did this with a whole tray of drives on a parking lot with side walk 30x30cm tiles. I had permission to do this, but the tiles did not like the treatment,. It turned out that smashing the platters with a claw hammer ( and ample personal protection! ) was not exactly good for the integrity of the tiles below that mayhem. I smashed two of them in the process of physically destroying 30 or so hard drives. An industrial shredder would have done the job even better, but our department did not have the money to go for that more professional method, The head of the hammer used for this was also worse for wear after this.
@@LarixusSnydes I use my concrete garage floor and a piece of wood under the drives but a whole tray? No, I might have done this to a total of three drives. On tiles? Not a good idea at all. Hope the cost to replace the damaged flooring was less than the cost of renting an industrial shredder.
@@edhuismanster Thank you for the concern. Yes, the costs of replacing the tile was considerably less than the industrial shredder. Besides those tiles were already due for replacement; lots of chipped corners and general wear. People complained about almost tripping over them. So in a way my action expedited the replacement.
I just use dd.
Thermite is faster😉🤣🤣
... and more fun! Be well!
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