[geeks] Wiping disks FAST?

[Phil Stracchino]

Gary Goddard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got the job of wiping a lot of sca disks (about 4000!!!!).
> 
> What is the best way of doing a one pass wipe? No DOD wipe is required.
> 
> Available hardware is 2 Sun 711 12 disk cases and Sun or Intel servers.
> 
> Currently driving each 711 from an XP box and formating an NTFS
> partition on each disk through drive manager.

Format on Windows does not, I believe, guarantee to zero all data.
It'll zero all the directory structures, but when it comes to sensitive
data, that and 99 cents will get you a cup of bad coffee.



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