Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
04-03-2007, 08:18 PM
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Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
ok... so for a background I've been working with a charity for breast cancer lately.
people donate old electronics to them and then the electronics usually were sold for scrap metal.
I take the good working electronics, sell them, take a cut, and still make the charity more than they would without me. (win win)
I've been dealing with a bunch of computers lately but I have to sell them all without hard drives or have the drives erased (to protect privacy bla bla bla)
To erase a drive you have to boot the computer on a erase program which basically goes through the drives and nukes all the info on the drive.
This isn't that bad but it takes a while (8 ish hours) and I have a lot of hard drives to do. A lot.
What I'm wondering to all you computer techs is if you know a way to set up something to erase more than one drive at once? I'm not sure exactly how I'd do it, i just want something better than one drive at a time.
and no, I can't just blow away the partition on the drive, it needs to be fully erased up to department of defense standards.
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people donate old electronics to them and then the electronics usually were sold for scrap metal.
I take the good working electronics, sell them, take a cut, and still make the charity more than they would without me. (win win)
I've been dealing with a bunch of computers lately but I have to sell them all without hard drives or have the drives erased (to protect privacy bla bla bla)
To erase a drive you have to boot the computer on a erase program which basically goes through the drives and nukes all the info on the drive.
This isn't that bad but it takes a while (8 ish hours) and I have a lot of hard drives to do. A lot.
What I'm wondering to all you computer techs is if you know a way to set up something to erase more than one drive at once? I'm not sure exactly how I'd do it, i just want something better than one drive at a time.
and no, I can't just blow away the partition on the drive, it needs to be fully erased up to department of defense standards.
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04-03-2007, 10:53 PM
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Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS
You want to wipe these drives, not erase them.
Formatting will not suffice, data can still be recovered.
I haven't done this but I'd imagine that if you have the cables you could hook up a raid setup on one computer and have it do a batch wipe with the right program.
Formatting will not suffice, data can still be recovered.
I haven't done this but I'd imagine that if you have the cables you could hook up a raid setup on one computer and have it do a batch wipe with the right program.
04-03-2007, 11:01 PM
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Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS
Originally Posted by mike94se
Magnets?
04-03-2007, 11:50 PM
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Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
That hammer would work way better than the magnets. I forgot where I read it, but magnets won't really do a good job, maybe one more powerful than you have but I don't know.
I'm assuming they're old drives. You're gonna just have to suck it up and let them delete, you can really speed it up unless you have a lot of computers erasing drives at once.
Try selling **** for charity.
I'm assuming they're old drives. You're gonna just have to suck it up and let them delete, you can really speed it up unless you have a lot of computers erasing drives at once.
Try selling **** for charity.
04-04-2007, 12:16 AM
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Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS
If I wanted to break them i would just throw them on the ground. I'm trying to resell them.
I was thinking about a raid setup but i don't know how well it would work with this program i have.
There is a specific program I have to use, so there isn't any shortcuts to formatting that I can see
I was thinking about a raid setup but i don't know how well it would work with this program i have.
There is a specific program I have to use, so there isn't any shortcuts to formatting that I can see
04-04-2007, 01:51 AM
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Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
overwrite all the data with fresh friendly stuff.
What about sending in a 160GB HD for warranty with KNOWN questionable material on it?
LS Magazines for example.
Yep, call it a loss.
just broke the 1 TB barrier, thanks to Newegg and Seagate. 900GB external, a 400 and 500 unit.
What about sending in a 160GB HD for warranty with KNOWN questionable material on it?
LS Magazines for example.
Yep, call it a loss.
just broke the 1 TB barrier, thanks to Newegg and Seagate. 900GB external, a 400 and 500 unit.
