[Cialug] Wiping server hard drives

[Josh More]

Not for shredding, though I've heard rumors that if you know the right
people in Principal or Wells, you can merge your drives with theirs.

What I've done is drill them (two hits through the platter, pop pop) and
drop them off at the recycling place behind the comic shop (University +
73rd) for recycling.

-Josh

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey <
jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Von Ahsen" <barry at vonahsen.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:14:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wiping server hard drives
>
> what he said :)
>
> if you don't have some regulation/compliance standard to adhere to,
> shred/dd should be sufficient.  if you do have a standard, do whatever
> it says :)
>
> -barry
>
>
>
> On 10/19/2011 5:06 PM, Josh More wrote:
> > Oh.
> >
> > On modern hardware, you don't actually need shred for a secure delete.
> >
> > http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough
> >
> http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-wiping-one-pass-is-enough-part-2-this-time-with-screenshots
> >
> > So look at dd + /dev/zero.  Should be faster.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Hasler, Chris<
> > ChrisHasler at alliantenergy.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> I should have mentioned in my first post that I have used DBAN in the
> past,
> >> but now I'm looking for other suggestions since it hasn't been
> recognizing
> >> the controllers in any of the servers I've had to wipe now.
> >>
> >> As mentioned I've been experimenting with shred.  I've been booted to
> the
> >> CentOS-6.0-x86_64-minimal.iso and selected the option for Rescue.  I
> don't
> >> enable networking or scan for the existing file system just jump into
> the
> >> shell.  Run a fdisk -l to see what disks are configured, /dev/sda for
> >> example, then run shred -vfz -n 3 /dev/sda.  This seems to do the same
> as
> >> the dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1G command but will run three
> >> iterations, well four actually since the -z option does a final
> overwrite
> >> with zeros at the end.
> >>
> >> Chris H.
> >>
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