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Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance?
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?
Someone mod this informative - breaking the platters is the only sure-fire way to 'erase' a disk
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As about 50 other people have said, DBAN, Darik's Boot and Nuke. It far exceeds HIPAA Security Rule guidelines for secure deletion of media containing ePHI. It's about as close to a truly secure disk wiping system as you can get.
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