Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance?

Posted by timothy on Monday April 11, 2005 @11:23AM 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?

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Re:Mandatory Aliens Reference by pwnage · 2005-04-11 14:37 · Score: 0, Troll

Uh, Aliens didn't have Winona, Aliens Resurrection had Winona. ...and anyway, she's hot.

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doesn't add up by huded · 2005-04-11 23:05 · Score: 0, Troll

you said: "Right now, I am probably doing a minimum of ten secure wipes every month. A new hard drive would cost roughly a hundred bucks. That's 12,000 dollars annually, minimum, just on hard drives, which would be wasted."

I'm willing to bet that the portion of your salary that covers the time spent wiping drives is more than the $12,000 cost of replacing them. So -- if you're truly serious about maximizing revenue, then recommend the company fire you and use the cost savings to treat more indigent people.