Re: [LUG] Disk Wiping

[John PNZ <jh.pcgb@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleid=16716 is a good description of the internal wipe, with all the failsafe stuff about frozen flags, and counts of tries, and such. I've no doubt it's reliable but half the time the drive ends up refusing to cooperate.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 15:24, John PNZ <jh.pcgb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some drives have an internal wipe available which has fiddly controls and I never liked.

DBAN, Darik’s Boot and Nuke, on a boot stick, is easy and I've trusted it for decades.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 15:13, David Bell <grimpen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a few HDDs to wipe prior to replacing them with SSDs. Can anyone
please recommend a good freebie wiping programme that they have used.

TIA

David

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