I've not seen what <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">7.62x39 will do, but .308 does a good job on hard drives. Pistol rounds like 9mm or .45 don't penetrate them well enough, and you'll have a lot of ricochet if you hit the solid part of the frame.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">If you want to be really efficient, you can do 5 or so at a time with a .50 bmg.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://splodetv.com/video/.50bmg-vs.-15-hard-drives">http://splodetv.com/video/.50bmg-vs.-15-hard-drives</a></font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">-dc<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbailey@co.marshall.ia.us">jbailey@co.marshall.ia.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have considered taking them down to the range at the SO, but the Sheriff likes to keep a clean range.<br>
<br>
Thermite would be fun, but questionable legality..<br>
<div class="im"><br>
-Jon<br>
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</div><div class="im">From: "Dave Hala Jr" <<a href="mailto:dave@58ghz.net">dave@58ghz.net</a>><br>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wiping server hard drives<br>
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Got any 7.62x39 ammunition? I've got a rifle.<br>
<br>
:) Dave<br>
<br>
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 17:17 -0500, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:<br>
> As another (although not free) alternative, is anyone aware of someone in the Des Moines area that can shred drives? We have ~100 sitting in a box that need to be destroyed. Some of those don't even work anymore.<br>
><br>
> -Jon<br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Barry Von Ahsen" <<a href="mailto:barry@vonahsen.com">barry@vonahsen.com</a>><br>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:14:14 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wiping server hard drives<br>
><br>
> what he said :)<br>
><br>
> if you don't have some regulation/compliance standard to adhere to,<br>
> shred/dd should be sufficient. if you do have a standard, do whatever<br>
> it says :)<br>
><br>
> -barry<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 10/19/2011 5:06 PM, Josh More wrote:<br>
> > Oh.<br>
> ><br>
> > On modern hardware, you don't actually need shred for a secure delete.<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough" target="_blank">http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough</a><br>
> > <a href="http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough-part-2-this-time-with-screenshots" target="_blank">http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough-part-2-this-time-with-screenshots</a><br>
> ><br>
> > So look at dd + /dev/zero. Should be faster.<br>
> ><br>
> > -Josh<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Hasler, Chris<<br>
> > <a href="mailto:ChrisHasler@alliantenergy.com">ChrisHasler@alliantenergy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> I should have mentioned in my first post that I have used DBAN in the past,<br>
> >> but now I'm looking for other suggestions since it hasn't been recognizing<br>
> >> the controllers in any of the servers I've had to wipe now.<br>
> >><br>
> >> As mentioned I've been experimenting with shred. I've been booted to the<br>
> >> CentOS-6.0-x86_64-minimal.iso and selected the option for Rescue. I don't<br>
> >> enable networking or scan for the existing file system just jump into the<br>
> >> shell. Run a fdisk -l to see what disks are configured, /dev/sda for<br>
> >> example, then run shred -vfz -n 3 /dev/sda. This seems to do the same as<br>
> >> the dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1G command but will run three<br>
> >> iterations, well four actually since the -z option does a final overwrite<br>
> >> with zeros at the end.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Chris H.<br>
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