[clug] Secure Erase of disks/drives

[steve jenkin]

I was sure there'd been a thread on this in the last few months, but
couldn't find it...

For any of you needing to zap drives before disposal, these links seem
definitive.

Robin Harris Blog - "How to REALLY erase a hard drive"
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=129&tag=nl.e539>

Points to [PDF] "Data Sanitisation" by Centre for Magnetic Recording
Research
<http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf> and
<http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/hughes/CmrrSecureEraseProtocols.pdf>

Quotes NIST 800-88 and DoD 5220 standards compliance.
Notes that degaussers may not work with next generation drives
[500Gbit/sq.in]...
And grinding disks into pieces smaller than 1 sector is used as well.
And newer 2.5" drives with FDE (Full Disk Encryption) done on-board can
be very secure.

Gordon Hughes/CMRR [has a free downloadable utility, runs under DOS]
<http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/hughes/subpgset.htm>

Harris also mentions "Boot and Nuke" - haven't looked.
<http://dban.sourceforge.net/>

Hope this is interesting.
regards
s

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