[geeks] Wiping disks FAST?

[Gary Goddard]

Thanks Bill that sounds promising, If not i'll drag a solaris boxen out 
and try the previous solution for speed.

Gary


Bill Bradford wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:16:59PM +0000, Gary Goddard wrote:
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>>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.
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>I've used DBAN:
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>http://dban.sourceforge.net/
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>It can do multiple drives at once.
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>Bill
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