Wiping HDDs

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Gawd
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I need to figure out a way to wipe HDDs quickly, efficiently, and to DOD standards or consumer equivalent. The issue is that they have hundreds of drives coming in, would like to assure data destruction without harming the drive. Not to mention they have all types of drives come in in various interfaces...

Any ideas? I usually like killdisk, but it would seem to be very time consuming to do that on every single drive. I'm not sure you can simultaneously do multiple drives either to save time.

Edit: I would like to add that they are equipment recyclers so the interfaces coming in would be as varied from SCSI to SAS, FC setups, etc.
 
If the customer wants it destroyed physically, we have the capacity to do so.

However, if all they need is data destruction assurance, we would like to recover the HDD for resale or donation.
 
I like using Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) personally. DBAN can either be booted from a floppy disk or burned to CD and wipes data using six different methods, ranging from 1 to 35 passes. As a bonus, DBAN doesn't place a limit on how many computers you can clean simultaneously.
 
+1 for DBAN

we keep an old whitebox server in our "build room" specifically for throwing our decommissioned drives into before they go for for shredding or to be repurposed. We have SCSI, IDE, and SATA/SAS back planes in the tower, and occasionally use it for wiping out decom'd fiber channel disk shelves.
 
If you do use DBAN, the quick mode erases the drive beyond recovery (requiring multiple passes is a myth) Save yourself some time and go with the quick mode.
 
Looks like a lot of votes for DBAN- I'll look into it and hopefully it works out.

Berg0- your description fits our need exactly...
 
Yes, multiple passes of randomized data is completely unnecessary. Just zerofill them. MHDD will certainly do this, and I guess maybe that's DBAN's quickmode?
 
the place i volunteer at uses dban also. we do the 3 pass method. ill check into this quickmode.
 
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