[geeks] Wiping disks FAST?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 17:18:28 CST 2006


Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:16:59PM +0000, 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.
>> Speed is of the essence because I'm being paid by the disk.
>> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I've used DBAN:
> 
> http://dban.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It can do multiple drives at once.

What about dynamically setting up raidframe RAID0 arrays and formatting 
giant filesystems.

Peace...  Sridhar



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