Hard drive destruction 'crucial'

[FN-GM]

Could be handy to put them into the foundations of the schools new extension

[SYNACK]

Was intermittent last night, but seems OK now?

 

Yeap, worked but painfully slowly.

[Halfmad]

We have a hard drive crusher:

 

SecureIT :: Camara Technology » SecureIT Service

 

It's a lot of fun Oddly I Still run DBAN first, can't get out of the habit!

[ICT_GUY]

Verity Systems Degaussers / Erasers

 

I want one of these so bad, its where your data goes to die.

Edited March 24, 2009 by ICT_GUY

[sparkeh]

Oddly I Still run DBAN first, can't get out of the habit!

 

Heh yeah know what you mean. Had to dispose of some HDs today, wiped them then invited my boss to join me outside with a couple of sledgehammers to exercise the days frustrations. A jolly good time was had by all.

[sidewinder]

I dont know about anyone else, but we donate our old computers to primary schools.

if we gave them the machines without a hard drive because we smashed them, it would be expense for them that they couldnt afford and probably time for us as we would have to fit them all.

 

So wiping is the only solution for us. Quick wipe for student client machines (personal data on there is likely to be close to none, no local profiles), intense wipe for staff and server drives. Yes it takes longer, but if theres nothing wrong with the hard drive, why smash it just to save a bit of time?

 

Only one ive ever smashed was one out of my old laptop - had a copy of all my docs on it, and it kept erroring when trying to wipe, so i took it apart. Tried to get the platter out and it shattered into a million tiny pieces everywhere. Not nice

Edited March 25, 2009 by sidewinder

[dwhyte85]

Without physical destruction of a drive, is zero filling a fix to this, i've read that this is basically what most of the software does? Or maybe zero fill then do a random fill? as for physical destruction shove a set of ears on it and throw it in a ring with mike tyson. Edited March 25, 2009 by dwhyte85
cant type

[Jamo]

Data remanence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The gutman wipe takes SOOOOOO long! 32 passes of it as well!! Im sure its thorough!