[geeks] Wiping disks FAST?

[nate at portents.com]

FYI - I once took a disk I had formatted HFS+ from my Mac, migrated the
data to another drive, then reformatted it NTFS (not the quick format, the
full format).  The drive I had migrated the data to on my Mac failed a
week later, and using a data recovery program I was able to recover all,
and I mean *all* data from the old HFS+ drive that had been reformatted
NTFS.  The full format in NTFS writes a directory structure and then
simply does a verify for the rest of the drive.  So the moral of the story
is that a full NTFS format in Windows does very little to actually erase a
disk.

- Nate

> 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.
>
> Speed is of the essence because I'm being paid by the disk.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Gary
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