[geeks] Wiping disks FAST?

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:16:59PM +0000, Gary Goddard wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got the job of wiping a lot of sca disks (about 4000!!!!).
> What is the best way of doing a one pass wipe? No DOD wipe is required.
> Available hardware is 2 Sun 711 12 disk cases and Sun or Intel servers.
> Currently driving each 711 from an XP box and formating an NTFS
> partition on each disk through drive manager.
> Speed is of the essence because I'm being paid by the disk.
> Any help would be appreciated.

I've used DBAN:

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

It can do multiple drives at once.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas