Question on shredding a terebyte drive
Sharpe, Sam J
sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 21:29:08 UTC 2009
2009/9/2 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) <frankly3d at gmail.com>:
> On 02/09/09 21:32, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>>
>> I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It
>> originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
>> and then as root ran
>>
>> shred -vz /dev/sdd
>>
>
> Angle-Grinder or Belt-Sander on the platters.
> Works every time.
Too slow and few opportunities for parallelisation.
Now, a .50 cal - that's a "secure" erase, and it scales to 17 erase
operations in parallel:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/22/video-50-caliber-armor-piercing-round-vs-18-hard-drives/
--
Sam
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list