Storage Solutions Has anyone used HDDErase?

[vivek.krishnan]

Was going to give my HDD for RMA today; and wanted to remove some personal stuff from the drive plus some *ahem* stuff. Started by using eraser with 35 overwrites, but for a 100MB folder, it was taking close to 20 minutes, changed setting to 7 overwrites, DoD method. Another 90 MB folder took almost 5 minutes, and after calculation was sure it would take a lot more time to remove the 500~600GB of stuff that i want to securely erase. Went looking around for a different solution, and found this --> CMRR - Secure Erase

Made a MS DOS boot drive asap, removed all HDD's except the one to be cleaned, changed setting from AHCI to native IDE (duh!), booted into DOS, and loaded up the program, selected the drive.

Also did a enhanced secure erase, instead of the normal secure erase. Shows a time of 316 minutes required to clean the complete HDD (wow!). However, guess will not be able to go today for RMA .

Has anyone used this program before?

 

[CA50]

i doubt if the RMA guys will be interested in your collection and second just erase the whole HDD completely, full format not the quick one

 

[booo]

I would suggest using dd for windows and do a zero fill. i would be as fast as your hdd write throughput. like 60-70mbps on typical seagate hdd.

or you can use iometer to fill garbage on the hdd that would be fast too.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

i doubt if the RMA guys will be interested in your collection and second just erase the whole HDD completely, full format not the quick one

Its not just the RMA guys im worried about, IF any1 is able to recover the stuff that was there, that is something i do not want.

I would suggest using dd for windows and do a zero fill. i would be as fast as your hdd write throughput. like 60-70mbps on typical seagate hdd.

or you can use iostat to fill garbage on the hdd that would be fast too.

Will check it out. Thanks for the link.