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Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance?

Posted by timothy on from the write-a-lot-of-xs-and-os dept.

An anonymous reader asks "I am searching for a box into which I can plug a hard drive (IDE or SCSI of various flavors) and automatically begin a secure deletion process (DoD 2250 compliant or the like would be good). This is normally for dead drives which need to be RMA-ed. Because of various regulations (HIPAA for starters), we need to at least attempt to do a good job clearing the disk. I've heard from a number of places, including this Slashdot story, that degaussing isn't great. There are software solutions out there, but in general, I want to toss a replacement hard drive in and not have to hunt around for hardware to put the bad drive in in order to run the software. Given the right case, a solid state drive, some SCSI cards and one of various pieces of software, I can imagine such a beast. Has anyone seen someone selling something like this?" No case-opening is necessary to use a USB/IDE converter, which might be a good middle ground. Any other ideas?

5 of 573 comments (clear)

  1. I need to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hide my porn from the NSA. Help!

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is it mine? I think so

    I like French pussy, too. I suppose now it's called Freedom pussy. Just doing my part to improve relations between the good old USA and France.

  3. Any linux guru by Monkelectric · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Should be able to build you a box and write the software. My consulting company for instance :)

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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  4. Re:A smashed drive tells no tales by b374 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Real programmers have sixteen fingers.
    Why do they lose 4 of them?
  5. So who's the criminal here? by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    My wife is a Ph.D. Psychologist (tm)

    So, she tests a lot of kids for ADHD and High IQ.

    If I toss a computer that might have old data on it, even if I "Just" reformat it, who is the HIPPA criminal?

    The person (my Wife) who trashes the hardware, or the malcontent who goes thru to read some obscure file format, to determine some kid's IQ?

    --
    This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.