Re: Erasing hard drives - Erase-O-Matic?

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 I talked it over with my boss, and he decided the drive was 
cheap enough that it made more sense just to scrap it. 
So I ordered the Erase-o-matic, and I plan to dismantle the 
drive, wipe it with the device, and toss it in the pile of 
stuff to be recycled. 


Al Wheeler wrote: 
> Derek Martin wrote: 
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>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:10:32PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
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>>> In my case, I'm just aiming for due diligence. I've purchased a lot 
>>> of Seagate drives over the past few years, and this is the first one 
>>> that's died on me; I'm trying to define a policy for dealing with 
>>> the situation. 
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>> Have you tried contacting Seagate, and telling them that you have 
>> concerns about returning the drive to them, because it contains 
>> sensitive information?  While I'd tend to doubt it, they may have some 
>> sort of accomodation for this... it's not so uncommon a situation 
>> these days. 
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> Somebody sent me this url and I recalled this thread. I don't recall was 
> this alternative already referenced. 
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> WipeMASSter 
> The IM WipeMASSter product is designed as a compact, stand-alone 
> hardware solution for sanitizing and erasing drive data for up to nine 
> drives simultaneously at speeds exceeding 3GB/min. 
> 
> Wipe out your drives in a fast mode or per DOD specs. Formatting is 
> optional. 
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> http://www.ics-iq.com/index.cfm/action/product.show/id_product/433e6b6c-3247-49ed-b6f9-16f356acc67a/id_category/8c53de87-f79f-419b-8f6a-9d889d5b97c4
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> It looks like it assumes the drives are functioning normally, though. 
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> Good luck! 
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