What's your erase procedure for selling old hard drives?

[EnderW]

I usually just do a single 0 fill, what about you?
Also, I had some disks that were in RAID5, all went to separate buyers, is there really a need to do a 0 fill on them? I wouldn't think you could recover any data from a single RAID5 disk without the others.

[axan]

single dban (dod short) pass
as for the raid5 disks no real need to wipe them if they are going to separate buyers

[InvisiBill]

I work at a financial institution, so all of our retiring drives get a few passes of random data from DBAN (http://www.dban.org/). I can't remember the last time I sold a personal drive. I always keep them around because "I can do something with that" and then they sit around until they're worthless and/or dead.

Also, I had some disks that were in RAID5, all went to separate buyers, is there really a need to do a 0 fill on them? I wouldn't think you could recover any data from a single RAID5 disk without the others.

Maybe they're plotting together to get all your drives and steal your data!

[DonDon]

I just set it beside the subwoofer from my stereo system for a few days. I then plug it in and make sure windows does not see any partitions.

Don

[hemi]

I just set it beside the subwoofer from my stereo system for a few days. I then plug it in and make sure windows does not see any partitions.

Don

nice degausser... :D


I go the dban route as well.