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Proper HDD clear process? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Usually my process is very... hammer and drill related - but I have a family member who is interested in taking my latest batch of hard drives after I upgraded.

What are the best (linux) tools for the process? I'd like to run some tests to make sure they're good first and also do a full zero out of any data. (Used to be a raid if that matters)

Edit: Thanks all, process is officially started, will probably run for quite a while. Appreciate the advice!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So I run encrypted drives except for the odd thing where it would be a pain in the anoos, but what would... drive... someone to physically destroy the drives?

Literally the only thing I can think of is having massive amounts of illegal data but what would that even be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Physically destroying drives is standard operating procedure. Big data centres and data brokers literally have a giant industrial shredder in the basement which shred and pulverise all obsolete hardware.

Anyone with any sort of fiduciary or legal duty to keep any data safe would also need to destroy data storage - think Lawyers, Doctors with their own clinics, Journalists, Police Officers etc. Now even people in finance need to worry about their data, because even the most inane shit like call logs from a mid to high level banker can be sold for a fuckton of money.

Or it could be plans for 9-11 part deux electric boogaloo, can't tell.