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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Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
 

quick formatt and your dun!

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.

Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
 

Not that you should do this, but isnt it true if you format the same drive 3-4 times thats about the same as a batch wipe if its not available?

Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS
 

Magnets?

Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS
 

then you might as well buy a shitload of 4 gig hard drives from some source. and say this is all they got lol.......

Re: Need to erase a lot of hard drives at once. *COMPUTER TECH HELP!* + LESBIANS!!!!
 

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 porn for charity.

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

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.