[PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Jason Barnett wrote:

> Not answering your question, but my preferred method of scrubbing a drive
> is to either use DBAN (dban.org) or just write /dev/urandom to the block
> device ( dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda ). This writes random garbage over
> the entire drive including partition tables and all data. The data MIGHT
> me recoverable if someone wanted to spend a lot of money to do so, but for
> all reasonable purposes it is wiped. Using DBAN will be more secure, but
> take a lot longer. Either method may take a day or so to complete,
> depending on the size and speed of the drive.

Jason,

Thank you.

Rich